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Knowing the Real Saint Mary Magdalene, by Dawn Beutner – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Detail from "Repenting Magdalene" (also called "Magdalene and Two Flames", c.1638-43) by Georges de la Tour (WikiArt.org)

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, July 22, 2025

Dawn Beutner is the editor of a new book All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini (Ignatius Press, 2025). She is also the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com.

 

Understanding Mary Magdalene is a bit more complicated than it might appear.

Mary of Magdala, Mary Magdalene, the Magdalene: whatever you call her, she has been one of the most beloved Catholic saints for almost two millennia.

Artists have painted her portrait. Well, since she probably died in the first century AD, artists such as El Greco and Georges de la Tour have used their imaginations and the traditional symbols associated with her—a skull and less-than-modest clothing—to portray the sort of woman they think she might have been. Artists have also depicted her in paintings of the Crucifixion, where she generally appears weeping and penitent at Christ’s feet.

As is the case for many of the other people described in the Gospels who were Christ’s followers and traveling companions, churches have been dedicated to Mary Magdalene all over the world, from Rome to Arizona. …

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