S3 Bonus Episode Back to the Desert: Mary of Egypt with Amy Frykholm “As Christianity moved to an empire-based movement, women lost a lot of power. So it makes sense that they would have gone into the ...

C A I R O, Egypt, Sept. 11 -- Every night Marcelle Maurice comes to Saint Mark’s church in the little town of Assiut, Egypt, ... She says she sees an apparition of the Virgin Mary every night.

Magdalene, like Mary of Egypt, delighted him and still delights me, not in the form of some fixed new idea but in the multitude of disruptive possibilities she offers.

A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures less than 15 inches tall and about 5 inches wide. Raphael painted the portrait ...