For years, internet users have shared images of a weathered skull inside a gold reliquary shaped like a woman's head, identifying it as the genuine skull of the biblical Mary Magdalene. Examples ...

“A pilgrimage to Mary Magdalene is a pilgrimage of the heart,” said Ariana Brackenbury, who leads sacred pilgrimages in France.

Holy relics of St. Mary Magdalene — locks of hair and a small piece of bone enclosed in a golden cross reliquary — were brought to Louisiana from a basilica in southern France.

Real Pic of Mary Magdalene's Skull in French Church? According to tradition, the saint’s skeleton was discovered in southern France in 1279.

Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms - witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and ...

As a relic of Mary Magdalene tours the U.S. for the first time, former call girl Tracy Quan on how the patron saint of prostitutes has been present throughout her life.

Is This the Face of Mary Magdalene? Scientists were able to reconstruct a face based on an ancient skull—whether it belonged to the Biblical figure remains a mystery.

Who was Mary Magdalene? Historians are still trying to figure that out. She’s one of the most recognized figures in the Bible—and perhaps the most misunderstood. That might be why scholars ...

Mary Magdalene's nonphysical interpretation of resurrection was ultimately suppressed, says Chilton, because it came uncomfortably close to the view of the Gnostics, a heretical sect of ...

She turned the mass of her crimes to virtues." In 1275, Jacobus de Voragine, a Dominican monk, authored "The Golden Legend," which claimed Mary Magdalene had settled in France after the Resurrection.

Mary Magdalene’s body passed through Rome on the journey to France, the story goes, and bone fragments from her foot were given to the pope.