On June 20, 2024, a Reddit user posted a photograph of a skull inside a gold reliquary shaped like a woman's head. The post identified the images as showing "Mary Magdalene's alleged skull ...

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Every year, on the Sunday closest to July 22, a procession with Mary Magdalene’s skull — contained in a gold reliquary — takes place throughout the streets of Sainte-Maximine in France.

Eliza Griswold on Mary Magdalene, the subject of numerous controversies who is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Most straightforwardly, Penco argued, is Mary Magdalene’s proximity to Christ and his cross in the painting. She kisses the cross and Christ looks down paternalistically towards her.

A new film on the life of Mary Magdalene, starring Rooney Mara in the title role, Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter the Apostle, recasts her in that mold.