Mary Magdalen

“Jesus saith unto her, 'touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God and your God'. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had spoken these things unto her” (Jn20:17-18).
Mary Magdalene appears in all of the Gospel accounts of the events surrounding the Ressurection. Because Mary reported the good news of the Ressurection to the disciples.
Mary Magdalen is often represented as a Christian woman , with flowing hair, and holding her ointment-pot.
After the Resurrection, Jesus' followers, Philip, Lazarus, Mary Magdalen, Joseph of Arimathea were put to sea in a rudderless ship to be left to drown - but the ship came to land at Marseilles Mary Magdalen became a missionary preacher while Joseph sailed further to Britain, Mary is said to have stayed in France.



“Jesus saith unto her, ‘touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father;






















Mary Magdalene and The Miracle of the Red Egg

A biblical Christian testimony concerning Mary Magdalene says that she was a woman of social status and wealth. Following Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, she used her position to gain an invitation to a banquet given by Emperor Tiberius Caesar.

When she met him, she held a plain white egg in her hand and exclaimed "Christ is risen!" Caesar laughed, and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her hand turning red.

Before he finished speaking, the egg in her hand indeed turned bright red, and she cried "Christ is risen, for Jesus has burst forth from the tomb”. And she continued proclaiming the Gospel to the entire imperial house. This miracle turned many of them to Christ at that time.

Today, many Eastern Orthodox Christians end the Easter service by sharing bright red eggs and proclaiming to each other, "Christ is risen!" The eggs represent new life, and Christ bursting forth from the tomb. This began the tradition of coloring Easter eggs.




Old Saxson 10 AD. Carving of Mary Magdalene wiping our Lords Feet