Mary Magdalene

Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she

When the Sabbath was over, Mary the mother of James, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb where Jesus had been buried. A large stone closed off the entrance and when they arrived the stone had been moved. An angel appeared to them and told them not to be alarmed for Jesus had risen. But, they were alarmed and when the angel told them to go tell the disciples and Peter that Jesus had risen they were afraid, ran away, and didn’t tell anyone.

Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of God are both biblical women who were faced with similar societal standards even thought these time periods are hundreds of years apart. Mary Magdalene was always seen as the “rebellious” women in the bible when it turns out she really wasn 't doing anything wrong. Similarly David Van Biema wrote about this topic in Time Magazine saying that Mary was first seen in the Gospel of Luke as

Then the angels told them to not be afraid, that he knew the purpose of their coming was to seek the crucified Jesus and asked, “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” The angels reminded them that Jesus told them when He was in Galilee that He must be delivered to sinful men, be crucified, and would rise again on the third day. Then the two angels told the women to not be afraid, that he knew the purpose of why they were at the grave, that the Lord is no longer there, but they could come and see where He laid. The women went into the tomb, saw a man sitting on the right in a long white garment. These frightened ladies were told not to be afraid, to go speedily, tell His disciples that Jesus is risen from the dead and goes before them into Galilee, and would see Him there (Matthew 28:5-7; Luke

When discussing the Bible’s New Testament, there are several individuals aside from Jesus that gander a lot of attention. It is not uncommon to hear pastors and priest preaching about the disciples that walked with the messiah during his time of great works during a Sunday service. There are many lessons to be learned from the experiences of and trails faced by the men that knew best. However, even though the Bible is considerable a masculine text, there are many notable women sprinkled throughout it. Most notable, of course, would be the mother of Jesus, Mary. She made several appearances throughout the Gospel from the moment the angel came to her and said “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28) to let her know that she was going to be the mother of the “Son of the Most High” (Luke 1:32) to the moment she stood witness to the crucifixion of that Son. Today, after Jesus, Mary – sometimes also called The Virgin Mary – is among those most revered in the Bible. However, she is not the only Mary to have close ties to the Biblical savior. There are actually at least three other Marys to walk along side with Jesus at some point, but none more conversational than Mary Magdalene.

These myths together influenced the Jesus story in Christianity, especially the parts with Mary Magdalene in them, such as Jesus' crucifixion, death, and resurrection.

(Morrison 91). As defying as Hagar was, Magdalene was seen as a more fortifying name. Mary Magdalene was a biblical character found in the New Testament. She is referred to as one of the first female apostles. Her devotion to Jesus Christ was so strong that Mary was one the few apostles that were able to stay with him through the crucifixion.

There is no biblical evidence or gnostic evidence to prove this theory true, but there is still a connection between the Templar knights and Mary Magdalene. The Templar Knights were crusaders around the tenth

2. On Sunday following the crucifixion, Jesus his tomb was found empty by a group of his woman followers.

Just as Mary was preserved from sin to be an undefiled ark to carry the Word of God, her body was preserved from the corruption of death by being assumed into heaven. Since then, she has repeatedly intervened in history with apparitions to the lowly. She appeared to St. Bernadette at Lourdes in 1858 to

Mary, Joseph and Jesus, to a catholic is a deception of a woman who conceived a child before she was married, a chaste stepfather who nearly divorced her as a result, and that original sign of contradiction, the human son of God. A church that claims to descend from this most untraditional of domestic arrangements might ask itself: Was any family ever more irregular than that? (Manseau)

But, being that they saw no one other than her, they thought she had lost her mind. What they did not see was that Jesus was leading one of his soldiers home and she was talking to him.

Following the death of Jesus, it was up to the apostles to carry forth His word and teachings to the world, thus forming the early church. Disciples would hold sermons in homes and traditions and teachings were handed down mouth to mouth. As the word spread, the number of followers grew. The Church focuses primarily on the contributions of Jesus’ twelve main disciples, who were all men. Women, however, also made contributions to the early church as well. Mary Magdalene often gets overlooked and labeled as a sinner or even a prostitute. She was one of Jesus’ closest confidants and friends, some suggest she even became his wife. It is a little known fact that Mary Magdalene has her own gospel: The Gospel of Mary.

In all of three of these Gospels, the authors begin their accounts by mentioning Mary Magdalene and another woman named Mary who were headed to Jesus’s tomb to anoint his body with spices. These women are the first people to discover the empty tomb and all three

The word "gospel" is a translation of the Greek word "euangelion" which means "good news. The first three books in the New Testament (Mark, Matthew, and Luke) are often referred to as the Synoptic Gospels (from Greek synoptikos, "seen together") They bear greater similarity to each other than any of the other gospels in the New Testament. Along with these similarities come some differences among the gospels, suggesting that each gospel was written for a specific audience and for a specific purpose. This paper will examine the resurrection of Jesus, while identifying the significant differences between Mark, Matthew and Luke. This paper will also analyze the differences to suggest the prominent theological perspective each gospel author