St. Mary Magdalene’s feast on July 22 is the perfect time to see what we really can learn about her and from her. The raising of the rank of the liturgical veneration of St. Mary Magdalene from ...

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 of ...

Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Christ near the empty tomb is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Today is ...

In his Gospel, St. Luke tells how one day a woman who was a notorious sinner entered a house where Jesus was dining with friends, and, to the astonishment of everyone in the room, knelt, bathed his ...

She is one of the most significant women in the Bible. But what did Mary Magdalene really look like? In Western art and film – such as the 2018 film 'Mary Magdalene', starring Rooney Mara – she is ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

Author’s note: This article addresses the first half of The Magdalene in the Reformation, from the Introduction through page 126. There really is something about Mary…Magdalene. In February 2006, Joan ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...

On Monday, the feast day of Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth Schrader planned to hike up a mountain in the south of France to the cave where, legend has it, the saint lived out her remaining days after the ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided for the Apostles out of her own resources. A Renaissance (c. 1524) ...

Mary Magdalene has been characterized as a prostitute for hundreds of years — which has no basis in the Biblical text. Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak explains why the myth has persisted. Now ...

When Joaquin Phoenix took on the role of Jesus in the new film “Mary Magdalene,” he did many of the expected things: Grew long hair, adopted an intense and otherworldly stare, even meditated on a ...