[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[ME Michaud]

There is also a tradition that she was one of the children set to weave the
curtain of the temple (the one that was rent when Jesus died). The Gnostic
gospels are full of this stuff.

In a world where women bore and lost children throughout their lives, the
rending of the woven veil is a powerful image.

Re: Mary as described in the Book of Revelation, there are probably a
thousand images that portray her in this way, medieval, renaissance and
even pre-raphaelite IIRC.
-M

On Monday, August 19, 2019, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Grace, I believe those come from tradition and an extra-canonical Gospel of
> Mary (not the one in the New New Testament edited by Colin Woodard, which
> is of Mary Magdalene) which is often cited in Orthodox tradition. There are
> a number of Orthodox churches named for Sts. Joachim and Anna, including
> mine. I have a very sweet icon of the family which shows Mary as a young
> child, perhaps a toddler, with her parents. Traditionally it is said that
> the parents, being elderly and not well, realized that she and Joachim
> could not raise Mary to adulthood and so brought her to the Temple at the
> age of either three or six to be raised there, either to be a consecrated
> virgin or until she could be betrothed to a suitable man. Of course God and
> the Angel Gabriel had other plans for her :-)
>
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