Tucked away in a rocky mountain in southeast France is a cave formed by natural erosion called La Sainte-Baume, where Mary ...

Who’s the real Mary Magdalene? In this article, we separate fact from fiction and share eight lesser-known facts about ...

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been ...

Confirmation that the relic is indeed the one on display in Saint-Maximin, which allegedly contains the skull of Mary Magdalene, came from a virtual tour of the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, ...

As the religious scholar Philip Almond explains in his 2023 book "Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History," the skull was discovered in 1279 by a nephew of the French king Louis IX named Charles of ...

The painting is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (there are other, subtly different versions at the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art). It shows Mary Magdalene in a dark grotto in ...

“We are absolutely not sure that this is the true skull of Mary Magdalene,” says Philippe Charlier, a biological anthropologist from the University of Versailles. “But it was very important ...

Details. Martha and Mary Magdalene, on display through Sept. 22, included in free general admission.Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas. 214-922-1200. dma.org.For public programs on ...

Mary Magdalene's skull is protected by an iron grate at the Basilica of St. Mary Magdalene in St. Maximin. It sits above her alabaster sarcophagus. Erika Hobbs/For the Chicago Trib.

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...