St. Mary Magdalene's relic in Rome at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist of the Florentines. Photo credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA A popular belief says most of the mortal remains of the woman who ...

The post identified the images as showing "Mary Magdalene's alleged skull, displayed at the basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in Southern France." At the time of this writing, the post ...

and in the 1290s Pope Boniface VIII granted several bulls recognizing their Mary Magdalene relics as authentic and authorizing the construction of a basilica to hold them. The Catholic Church has ...

The text in the screengrab identified the remains as "The skull of Mary Magdalene in St Maximin Basilica in France." The ...

The work's debated authentication has not stopped a flow of visitors to the Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume basilica. A portrait of Mary Magdalene attributed to Raphael on view at the Basilica of ...

“From Mary Magdalene, whom tradition calls ‘the apostle ... the Holy Father greeted pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica via video link. After warmly welcoming them, he thanked them ...

The small portrait of Mary Magdalene is being displayed for a month in the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine basilica, which houses relics of Mary Magdalene -- making it Christianity's third most important tomb.

I grew up hearing the stories and characters of the New Testament, but I was in my 20s when I first learned that in the Latin tradition, Mary Magdalene is considered to be one and the same as Mary ...