
Mary Magdalene
In Our Time: Religion
The Relationship Between Mary Magdalene and the Franciscan Order
The Franciscan Order saw Francis as a second Magdalene. They not only claim Francis for being as Alta Christus, but second magdalene. Mary Magdalene clearly does feature in Gnostic writings in quite an interesting and prominent way. The thing that always strikes me about reading them is how absolutely vaporized all historical particularity is in these texts. In all the canonical Gospels, you know Jesus is a Jew living in 1st century Palestine. Even in John, there's lots of reference to historical context, absolutely none in these Gnostic writings.
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