Mary picks up an egg and it turns bright red. Icons often depict her holding an egg, and Orthodox Christians still color their Easter eggs red. Western myths are even more dramatic.

Migdal, red pin, located along the Sea of Galilee in northeast Israel. Maps courtesy of Creative Commons. The paper is part of a reconsideration of Mary Magdalene, ...

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 ...

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...