[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Jay Weigel]

The "canonical New Testament" as we know it now was not accepted until 367
AD, well after the time of Jesus, by which time what you are calling
"legend" (and what we Orthodox call tradition) was pretty firmly accepted
by many Christians. Debates over what was and is important continue into
the present day, in light of comparatively recent discovery of ancient
texts (Nag Hammadi, etc.) and re-interpretation of gnostic Gospels. So
there's that.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 5:52 AM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> St Ives, Cambridgeshire
>