
Mary Magdalene
In Our Time: Religion
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Mary Magdalene has been a figure of religious, artistic and literary inspiration among Christians for 2000 years. In the Bible she was at the cross when Jesus crucified; in Eastern Orthodox tradition, that's how she stays. She quickly absorbed other characteristics, a presumed prostitute, a symbol of contemplation and penitence - even as first apostle.
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