The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

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 ...

None of us can match up to that. In religion’s iconography of femininity there is another pole against which women are unfairly judged: Mary Magdalene. I do not mind admitting that I have been ...

The story takes viewers to first century Galilee, where a young Mary Magdalene likely lived on her own in a small fishing village on the nearby sea. Some details about her life remain ambiguous.

A Greenwich school has applied for planning permission to build a two-storey block to serve as an area to help “vulnerable students with complex needs”. St Mary Magdalene C of E All Through ...

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With these questions in my mind, I read the description. The woman depicted in the painting, Mary Magdalene, was wrongly identified as a sinner who regretted her past, becoming “a symbol of ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a 1606 painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is as fascinating for its intriguing history as for its style. Painted by the Italian Baroque artist towards the ...

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—a rare, once-lost canvas by the 17th-century Italian Baroque master Caravaggio—was on view for the first time in India. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born in ...

Filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee is demanding the release of secret documents he claims could rewrite Christian history.