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[[Image:Mary_Magdalene.jpg|right|frame|St. Mary Magdalene]]
The great and holy [[myrrh-bearer]] '''Mary Magdalene''', equal Equal of the [[apostlesApostles]], was a [[disciple]] of [[Jesus]] named Mary from Magdala, a town in Galilee. Her [[feast]] is celebrated on [[July 22]], and she is also remembered on the [[Sunday of Myrrh-bearing Women]]. She is known in some traditions as the Apostle to the Apostles because she was the one who announced the resurrection of Christ to the Eleven. She has an [[Akathist]] hymn dedicated to her.<sup>[[#Notes|1]]</sup>
== Titles ==
She is often confused with other women of the [[New Testament]].
[[Frederica Mathewes-Green]]<sup>[[#Notes|2]]</sup> writes: "She is not [[Mary of Bethany]] (a city south of [[Jerusalem]]), the sister of [[Martha]] and [[Lazarus]], who anointed Jesus' head. She is not the prostitute who anointed Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair. These two understandably get confused, and historically in the West all three women are lumped together under Mary Magdalene's name, a confusion continued in the ''Last Temptation of Christ'', ''The DaVinci Code'', and other works."
Karen Rae Keck (cf. [[#External links|External links]]) writes: "St. [[Gregory the Dialogist]] (Pope Gregory the Great) is believed to have begun the tradition in the Western Church, not accepted in the Eastern Church, which identified St. Mary with the 'sinful woman' in the seventh chapter of Luke."
* Present at [[crucifixion]] and [[burial practices|burial]]
** [[Gospel of Matthew|Matt]] 27:55-61: "<sup>55</sup> And many women who followed Jesus from [[Galilee]], ministering to Him, were there looking on from afar, <sup>56</sup> among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of [[Zebedee]]'s sons. <sup>57</sup> Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named [[Joseph of Arimathea|Joseph]], who himself had also become a [[disciple]] of Jesus. <sup>58</sup> This man went to [[Pontius Pilate|Pilate]] and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him. <sup>59</sup> When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, <sup>60</sup> and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock, and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed. <sup>61</sup> And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb."
* First to see the [[Resurrection|risen]] Lord
==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=102070 Holy Myrrhbearer and Equal of the Apostles Mary Magdalene] ([[OCA]])
*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints/saints_view?contentid=136 Mary Magdalene, Myrrhberer & Equal-to-the-Apostle] ([[GOARCH]])*[http://wwwstnina.comeandseeicons.comorg/mprint-journal/phn80.htm Icon of St. Mary Magdalene] by the hand of Nicholas Papas*[http:volume-1/volume-1-no-2-spring-1997/www.stnina.org/97sp/97splife-keckmary-magdalen.htm magdalene ''On the Life of Mary Magdalene''] by Karen Rae Keck
*[http://www.roca.org/OA/9/9k.htm Life of St. Mary Magdalene]
*[http://www.theologic.com/oflweb/feasts/myrrhbearers.htm The Holy Myrrh-Bearers]
[[Category:Missionaries]]
[[Category:Saints]]
[[Category:1st-century saints]]
[[el:Μαρία Μαγδαληνή]]
[[ro:Maria Magdalena]]