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After the liturgical revision in 1969 and 2021, the feast of Mary Magdalene continues to be on 22 July, while Mary of Bethany is celebrated as a separate saint, along with her siblings Lazarus and Martha on 29 July. [5] [6] In Eastern Christianity and some Protestant traditions, Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene are also considered separate ...
The event (or events – see discussion below) is reported in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 7, and John 12. [2] Matthew and Mark are very similar: Matthew 26:6–13. While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
Ambrose (c. 340 – 397), by contrast, not only rejected the conflation of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and the anointing sinner, [148] but even proposed that the authentic Mary Magdalene was, in fact, two separate people: [148] [149] one woman named Mary Magdalene who discovered the empty tomb and a different Mary Magdalene who saw the ...
The Golden Legend also records the grand lifestyle imagined for Martha and her siblings in its entry on Mary Magdalene: Mary Magdalene had her surname of Magdala, a castle, and was born of right noble lineage and parents, which were descended of the lineage of kings. And her father was named Cyrus, and her mother Eucharis.
The Klooster van Sinte Maria Magdalena van Bethaniën ("Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene of Bethany") was founded in the 1450s and was one of a number of monastic complexes along the oudezijde ("old side") of town, directly beyond the city walls along Kloveniersburgwal canal.
Schrader is a textual critic who studies discrepancies between the earliest manuscripts of the gospels.She is particularly concerned with the many textual variants around the name Maria in manuscripts of John’s Gospel, and argues that such textual instabilities might be connected to controversies around Mary Magdalene in early Christianity.
56: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: 55: Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him. 56: Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James
Medieval Western Christianity identified Mary of Bethany with Mary Magdalene and with the sinful woman of Luke 7 (Luke 7:36–50), very common for that time period. This influenced the Roman Rite liturgy of the feast of Mary Magdalene, with a Gospel reading about the sinful woman and a collect referring to Mary of Bethany.