HOW DID MARY MAGDALENE BECOME SO MISUNDERSTOOD?

"..characters in the New Testament have been so sorely miscast as Mary Magdalene, whose reputation as a fallen woman originated not in the Bible but in a sixth-century sermon by Pope Gregory the Great. Not only is she misidentified as the repentant fallen prostitute of legend, meditating and levitating in a cave but she was not necessarily even a notable sinner: Being possessed by "seven demons" that were exorcised by Jesus, she was arguably more victim than sinner And the idea, popularized by The Da Vinci Code, that Mary was Jesus' wife and bore his child, while not totally disprovable, is the longest of long shots[ 58]– Richard Covington, U.S. News and World Report[ 58] Since the late 6th century, Mary Magdalene has been identified in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church as an adulteress and repentant prostitute. Pope Gregory the Great made a speech n 591 where he seemed to combine the actions of three women mentioned in the New Testament and also identified an unnamed woman as Mary[ 48] Magdalene.[ 48] In 1969 the Vatican, without Magdalene In 1969 the Vatican, without[ 59] commenting on Pope Gregory's reasoning,[ 59] mplicitly rejected it by separating Luke's...

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