#magdalenedit

He crossed Mount Moreh to Jezrael, a city on the west side of the plain Esdrelon. Jesus cured numbers there openly before the synagogue. But He stayed a few hours only in Jezrael, so that Magdalen who, at the earnest entreaty of Martha, had come with her to see Jesus, did not find Him on her arrival. She heard only of His miracles from the lips of those whom He had cured. The sisters here separated, and Magdalen retraced her steps to Magdalum….. Jesus consoled Lazarus on the subject of Magdalen, of whom He said that already there had fallen upon her soul a spark of salvation, which would entirely consume her.

- Mary Magdalen in the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich 

Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalen in The Passion of the Christ (2004)

There was in Magdalen a mixture of true and false shame. She was partly ashamed of her simple, pious, and plainly dressed sister who went around with Jesus’ followers so despised by her visitors and associates, and she was partly ashamed of herself before Martha. It was this feeling that prevented her taking the latter into the apartments that were the scenes of her follies and vices. Magdalen was somewhat broken in spirits, but she lacked the courage to disengage herself from her surroundings.

- Mary Magdalen in the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Saint Mary Magdalen

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, Saint John, and Saint Mary Magdalene

Unknown Italian artist

Saint Mary Magdalen

Mary Magdalen in Penitence 

El Greco (Domenicos Theotokopoulos)