Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
Summary
She came to the sepulchre, laden with perfumes and aromatic herbs to embalm a dead man; but, finding him alive, she received a very different office from that which she had thought to discharge – messenger of the living Saviour, sent to bear the true balm of life to the apostles.
Pseudo-Rabanus, The Life of Saint Mary Magdalene- Type
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- Mary MagdaleneA Cultural History, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022