Medieval accounts suggest that after the Ascension of Christ, several of his closest companions fled persecution in the Holy Land and spent the rest of their earthly life in the South of France. Among ...

Who was Saint Mary Magdalene? What does scripture tell us about her ministry? What impact does her saintly life have on us today? This course explores the imagery of Saint Mary Magdalene, both ...

A new name, a new crest and a new curriculum for a venerable New Hampshire institution. Its president tells us why. In October, Magdalen College in Warner, N.H., announced three significant changes: a ...

For only the third time this century, an original painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) is coming to auction. The diminutive oil-on-panel Saint Mary Magdalene, painted ...

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Executed by an artist working in Florence during the second half of the sixteenth century, this panel draws on the mannerist figural types pioneered by painters such as Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino ...

148.9 x 186.7 cm. (58.6 x 73.5 in.) Commissioned from the artist by Giovanni Antonio Sauli (1596-1661), Genoa, likely in 1621; Thence by descent to his son, Francesco Maria Sauli (1662-1699), Genoa; ...

Mary Magdalene's encounter with the resurrected Jesus was the spark that ignited the flame of Christendom. Some argue that had it not been for her, Christianity would not have come into existence. But ...