The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene is situated on the slope of the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane and is one of the most easily recognizable landmarks of Jerusalem. This striking example ...

One tradition holds that a woman who saw Herodias toss the head into the trash carefully removed it, placed it in a clay pot, and buried it on the Mount ... the Church of St. Mary Magdalene ...

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Because of its association with both Jesus and Mary, the Mount has been ... Gethsemane and the Russian Orthodox Church of Maria Magdalene. But the Mount of Olives is also at the heart of the ...

As the residents in the classical Mediterranean were predisposed to olive skin with dark ... signified that Mary Magdalene had been granted the donum lacrimorum, “the gift of tears,” as espoused by ...