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In the Talmud, there's some argument that Mary Magdalene is the same as "Miriam Megadla se'ar", a woman who gave birth to a person called "The Son of Stada" in Sabbath 104.2.
This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene as she is about to meet the risen Jesus Christ in his tomb. Copping lived from 1863-1932. (Courtesy Photo) One of ...
On St. Mary Magdalene’s feast day, we read from the Song of Songs at Mass: “I will rise and will go about the city; in the streets and the broad ways I will seek Him Whom my soul loves.” And ...
In St. John’s telling of the Easter story (John chapter 20), Mary Magdalene shows up first. She’s there to care for the corpse of her beloved Rabbi and Lord, but all she finds is an empty tomb.
Martha tells Jesus, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world” (11:27), and so we anticipate that Mary Magdalene will also recognise Jesus’s identity.
Before Mary meets Jesus at the tomb, according to the Gospel of John, Peter and the beloved disciple were there. But they left before seeing Jesus. Mary’s love for Jesus compelled her to stay at ...
She has been called a woman possessed by demons, a sex worker, and the wife of Jesus: Mary Magdalene’s story has been written and rewritten countless times in the 2,000 years since she was a ...
Mary Magdalene’s friendship with Jesus Colleen Dulle September 16, 2022 This is "Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene After the Resurrection" by the Russian painter Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov.
From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:59-61:Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a great ...