Mary Magdalene, Saint

LC control no.	n 79032992
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mary Magdalene, Saint *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Maddalena, Saint Madeleine, Saint Magdaghinē, Saint Magdalene, Saint Maria Maddalena, Saint Maria Magdalena, Saint Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, Saint Marie Madeleine, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Maryam al-Majdalīyah, Saint
Associated place	Migdal (Israel)
Field of activity	Christianity
Profession or occupation	Christian saints
Special note	Substitute In some traditions, considered identical with Mary, of Bethany, Saint, n 86141638
Found in	Drello, M. Maria Maddalena, c1982: t.p. (Maria Maddalena) André-Vincent, P.I. Marie Madeleine dans le mystère pascal, 1983: t.p. (Marie Madeleine) Wildenberg-De Kroon, C. E. C. M. v. d. Das Weltleben und die Bekehrung der Maria Magdalena im deutschen religiösen Drama und in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters, 1979: t.p. (Maria Magdalena) Almand, J.D. Magdalene, c1985: p. 6 (Mary Magdalene) Fallon, J.E. "Mary Magdalene, St.," in New Catholic encyclopedia, 2nd ed., v. 9, 2003, pages 285-288, accessed online via Gale eBooks, February 1, 2021 ("Mary Magdalene, St. A holy woman who ministered to Jesus and His disciples during His public ministry (Lk 8.2-3) and who, according to Jn 20.1-2, 11-18 (see also Mk 16.9-11), was the first person to see the empty tomb and the resurrected Christ. She has been identified, without adequate justification, with the repentant woman of Lk 7.36-50 and with Mary of Bethany (Jn ch. 11) ... One can understand why a commentator could have inadvertently identified Luke's sinful woman of ch. 7 with Mary of Bethany, as, in fact, Tertullian did (De pudicitia, 11.2), for each were said to have anointed Jesus' feet and wiped them dry with her hair, while He was reclining at a banquet (Lk 7.38, 46; Jn 12.3). A more careful commentator such as Origen clearly distinguished between the two anointings and the different women involved (In Matthaeum, series 77). It is more difficult to understand how the repentant sinner, and therefore Mary of Bethany, following Tertullian, was identified with Mary Magdalene by Gregory the Great (Hom. 25.1.10), since St. Luke introduces Mary by name immediately after finishing the story of the penitent woman, whose name he either does not know or wishes not to reveal. Following Gregory, the Latin Church, generally but not universally, has continued to identify the three women and honors them and their different virtues under the title of St. Mary Magdalene on July 22. Following Origen, the Greek churches honor them, more appropriately, as separate and distinct saints") Encyclopedic dict. of religion (Mary Magdalene, St.) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (Mary Magdalene, Saint) Saltus, E. Mary Magdalen, a chronicle, 1970. Eghivard. Magdaghinēn meghramomē--, 1941: t.p. (Magdaghinēn) Visages de la Madeleine dans la littérature européenne ... 1990. L'ultimo Caravaggio dalla Maddalena ... c1994. Patgam Ashkharhi bolor ekeghetsʻinerun, 1999: p. 1 (Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi) Riwāyat Bīlātus al-Bunṭī wa-Maryam al-Majdalīyah, [193-?] Holweck, F. G. A biographical dictionary of the saints, 1924: page 678 ("Mary Magdalene, i.e., of Magdala, one of the Galilean women who supported Jesus and 'out of whom He had cast seven devils' (Mk. XVI, 9.), witness of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Through her He sent his first message to the Apostles. She was distinguished by extraordinary spiritual love for Our Lord. According to Luke (VIII, 2) she does not appear to be identical with the nameless sinner (Lk. VII, 36ss). John (XIX, 25, XX, 1) seems to distinguish her from Mary of Bethany. Nothing definite can be drawn from the Evangelists and the older Fathers differ in their opinions. Ss. Augustine and Gregory the Great defend the identity of the three women. The same view is taken by the Latin tradition and the Western liturgy. The public thesis of the "Three Marias," maintained by Jacob Faber Stapulensis (1517-19), was considered an attack on ecclesiastical doctrine and censured by the Sorbonne, 9 Nov., 1521. The controversy remains undecided. The Oriental Churches keep the three Marias apart ... The legend of the coming of Mary Magdalen (Martha, etc.), to Gaul (Provence), her penance at Ste-Baume, and her tomb in Vezelay, is apocryphal") Oxford dictionary of saints, 2011, viewed online via Oxford Reference, January 20, 2021: (Mary Magdalene (1st century); "This follower of Christ, 'out of whom he had cast seven devils,' who stood by his cross, went to anoint his body at the tomb, and to whom the risen Christ appeared on Easter Sunday morning, has often, but not universally in the West, been identified both with Mary the sister of Martha of Bethany and with the woman who was a sinner, who anointed Christ's feet in the house of Simon (Luke 7: 37). This identification, propounded by Gregory the Great, but now implicitly rejected by the Roman Missal, was accepted in the traditional cult of Mary Magdalene and by the artists who depicted her. Nowadays however she is considered more important for her role in telling the Apostles about Christ's Resurrection") Gnoli, Umberto. "Maria Maddalena, santa," in Enciclopedia italiana, 1934, accessed online via Treccani.it, February 1, 2020 (Maria Maddalena, santa; one of the pious women among the followers of Jesus in the Gospels; her name derives from thevillage of Magdala, today Magdal, on the western shore of Lake Gennesaret; many Latin fathers identify Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazarus and Martha, and also with the anonymous sinner mentioned in Luke; the Greek fathers distinguish the three; the question was much debated, especially in the 16th century in France, because of her relics; according to a legend traceable to the 11th century, she had come with her presumed siblings Lazarus and Martha to Provence)
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