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Mary Magdalene

In Our Time: Religion

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The Magdalene Master Panel of Vern

She is represented as a preacher amazingly. In parish churches up in the Alps where I'm working, this is quite a common scene for her to be shown as preaching and they don't seem to shy away from it. So it's quite important. These are in mural paintings in the naves and presbytrays. The idea of the the whore and the virgin there at the foot of the cross is there time and time again in where to not.

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