The government has this year cut back a funding lifeline for listed churches, putting historic buildings and the art they ...

God is in solidarity with those who need it most. And “Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her” (v. 18). She ...

But Jesus was no longer there. All they saw was an empty tomb and the burial cloths, nothing more. Later, some of them met Jesus on the way. Mary Magdalene even mistook him to be the gardener.

In the soft haze of dawn, as the world held its breath between darkness and light, Mary Magdalene walked alone toward a tomb. Her heart heavy with grief, she carried spices to anoint a body, expecting ...

Informed by Mary Magdalene that His tomb was empty following His crucifixion, Peter and “the other disciple whom Jesus loved” (John himself) rushed to the scene.

It seems quite obvious, as Gospel accounts only recall the traces of the risen Christ: a stone rolled away, a burial shroud cast aside and angels present at an empty tomb. But when reading today ...

Marina Warner writes about several portraits of Mary Magdalene with writing instruments in hand by a French artist from the early 16 th century, the Master of the Female Half-Lengths, ‘surely some of ...

On May 24, 2012, St. Mary Magdalene’s relic was solemnly transferred from the basilica’s museum to a niche on the left side of the church nave.

On Easter, she was the first to discover the empty tomb and then the first to see the risen Lord in the garden. There are many errors and misconceptions about St. Mary Magdalene.

The Gospel narrative tells us that Mary Magdalene unwittingly became the first to journey to the empty tomb. She wanted to pay her respects to her Master buried in it, just two days earlier.