Feast of Mary Magdalene

July 22 is the Feast day of Mary Magdalene, a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Mary Magdalene was a disciple of Christ, the only non-family woman to be closely associated with him. She was among the first to witness the resurrection and was charged by Christ with spreading the word to the other disciples.

Mary Magdalene has been a popular character in fiction and legend throughout the centuries. Recent non-fiction (”Holy Blood, Holy Grail“) and fiction (”DaVinci Code“) books put forward the theory that Mary was in fact the wife of Jesus, but the evidence is sketchy at best.

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