MATERA, Italy — Matera, in the south of Italy, is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of ...

A bombshell manuscript said to be nearly 1,500 years old has sparked fresh debate by suggesting Jesus Christ was wed to Mary Magdalene and ... been present at his crucifixion and subsequently ...

A Renaissance (c. 1524) oil-on-panel painting depicting Mary Magdalene transferring ointment from a maiolica pharmacy jar to a smaller vessel. Now located at the Walter's Art Museum in Baltimore ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do.

The story takes viewers to first century Galilee, where a young Mary Magdalene likely lived on ... She was a follower of Christ, a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection, and, though the ...

In each of the gospels, she would be recognized as one of the only people who stood by Jesus during his crucifixion and the first person He appeared to after His resurrection. Shortly before Mary ...

a symbol of her rejection of material goods and repentance following the crucifixion. Other famous depictions of the “Penitent Magdalene,” as Mary Magdalene at this phase of her life is ...

depicts Mary Magdalene at the feet of Christ after his crucifixion. The Gospels disagree about whether she actually witnessed the crucifixion—and the absence of evidence about her life has given ...

This is British artist Harold Copping’s depiction of the grieving Mary Magdalene ... of the ways that Magdalene proved her devotion to Jesus was by her behavior during the Crucifixion.

I call her “our communicator.” Then one Sunday this past Easter season I casually said to her, “You are our Mary Magdalene.” I received a blank stare. Later I realized she was thinking of ...

It would take nearly 1,400 years for this mistake ... range of emotions and personas that Mary Magdalene is associated with, including the agony of the crucifixion, the ecstasy of seeing the ...