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Mary Magdalene

In Our Time: Religion

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The Golden Legend of Mary Magdalene

Vesalie Abbey is on the route to Santiago de Compostela. The second crusade is preached there. Beckett goes there and excommunicates the King of England while he's in Vesalie. And during this time, somehow he manages to get Mary Magdalene into becoming a key patron saint of that church. Now, by Pope Leo the 9th in 1050, we have got a people-bull issue to where MaryMagdalene's name is written at the top. A few years later, and the others are gone, Mary Magdalen has become the top Trump girl.

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