[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Simon Kershaw]

Fine -- but we should recognize that these are just legends, pious 
legends maybe, but legendary all the same.

Mary's role in the story of Jesus is clear -- she was his mother, who 
gave him birth ad raised him to adulthood. She seems to have not 
entirely agreed with his preaching and healing ministry, but she was 
present at his death.

And that's about it. Everything else is legend and later invention, or 
else was considered so unimportant that it was not recorded in the 
canonical New Testament.

simon

On 2019-08-19 18:52, ME Michaud wrote:
> 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


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Simon Kershaw
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