Reflections on St Mary Magdalene
Reflections of St Mary Magdalene July 22nd is the Feast of St Mary Magdalene , the woman with seven demons who was cured by Jesus [Luke 8:2] before becoming one of his most ardent follower, who stood at the foot of the cross [John 19:25] - so it should come as no surprise that Jesus Christ chose Mary Magdalene to be the first one to see him after his Resurrection, commanding her, " Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God '" [John 20:17] This prompted St. Thomas Aquinas to bestow the title " De Apostolorum Apostola " which translates to the Apostle to the Apostles . In 2016, Pope Francis raised July 22 from a memorial to a feast day equal to that of the other apostles. It is widely accepted among secular historians that Mary Magdalene was a real historical figure, probably a wealthy Jewish woman from Magdala, a place with a notoriously unfaithful to the Laws of Moses b...