ST. MARY MAGDALENE (JULY 22ND)
St. Mary Magdalene Meeting Jesus After the Resurrection in a Medieval Latin Gospel Book, c. 13th Century Edited by Bp. Joseph Boyd ( Ancient Church of theWest ) The Gospel of Luke 8:2–3 lists St. Mary Magdalene as one of the women who traveled with Jesus and helped support his ministry "out of their resources", indicating that she was probably relatively wealthy. The same passage also states that seven demons had been driven out of her, a statement which is repeated in Mark 16. In all the four canonical gospels, St. Mary Magdalene was a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus and, in the Synoptic Gospels, she was also present at his burial. All the four gospels identified her, either alone or as a member of a larger group of women which includes Jesus's mother, as the first to witness the empty tomb, and the first to witness Jesus's resurrection. She is the patroness of women, those who struggle with sexual temptation, and those...
