Still, there are many unanswered questions about certain people in the Bible, but none is ... your looks or wealth, and so Mary Magdalene became possessed by seven demons. In the past, the number ...

Scripture first introduces Mary Magdalene as a woman possessed by seven demons. Which is worse: to have seven entirely evil spiritual entities possess you, or to be a reformed prostitute?

The stories were not included in the New Testament, a point which many scholars argue suggests they in fact supplement the Bible ... Jesus cleansed Mary of her seven demons, and she financially ...

And the Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons ... a long time for a Bible film to set ...

While we don’t all have to thank him for expelling seven demons from us (I’ll happily let Mary Magdalene keep that distinction for herself), we can look back on the moments when his presence ...

This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene as she ... that he had risen. “The Bible says she had been possessed by seven devils, but who knows what ...

It’s not just any woman, but Christ first appears to Mary Magdalene “from whom seven demons had gone out.” Pope St. Gregory baselessly assumed that phrase meant she had been a sex worker ...

Mary first appears in the Bible around A.D. 25 in Capernaum ... With breathtaking oversimplification, Gregory conflated Mary Magdalene of the seven demons with the unnamed "sinner" who washed ...

“That is completely unfounded by anything in Scripture ... Mary Magdalene. From this witness we know this much about Mary: She’s from the region of Magdala in northern Galilee, Jesus drives ...

Nonetheless, Magdalene has been maligned by Church fathers throughout the centuries; in the present day, feminist scholars have championed her. Magdalene, appearing in scripture only fourteen ...