Viral photographs authentically show the real skull of biblical figure Mary Magdalene inside a gold reliquary. The photographs show an authentic medieval reliquary containing a skull that the Vatican ...

What we know about Mary Magdalene from the New Testament is precious little, but that didn't stop Pope Gregory the Great in 591 from preaching a sermon in which he conflated three accounts of almost ...

For years, internet users have shared images of a weathered skull inside a gold reliquary shaped like a woman's head, identifying it as the genuine skull of the biblical Mary Magdalene. Examples of ...

Not only is Mary Magdalene an important woman in the Bible, but she is also a saint, and probably the most misunderstood Biblical figure in history. For centuries, Mary Magdalene's name has been ...

She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

Mary Magdalene was a recipient of grace with a story to proclaim. Save for Jesus Christ and his mother Mary, few biblical figures hold more prominence in the history of Christian art than Mary ...

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. As ...

Frank Woods Professor of New Testament, Trinity College, University of Divinity Who was Mary Magdalene? What do we know about her? And how do we know it? These questions resurface with the release of ...