On that town, see esp.
Identifying her as a prostitute led to her being merged with still another Mary: Mary of Egypt, a repentant sinner who prostituted herself.
But it is also true that if she was an apostle to the apostles, the evidence for her role has successfully been suppressed—at least until now.
In the 6 th century Pope Gregory the Great that the sinful woman mentioned in was the same person as Mary Magdalene.
Jane Schaberg, The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament New York: Continuum, 2002 , pp.
By Rhiannon Koh with image from The Asian American Freedom Rider As Jackson, Mississippi, Mary Magdalene Harrison was a student at Tougaloo College.