Roman Catholic tradition says that to escape persecution Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus travelled to Gaul (France) where Mary Magdalene spent the last thirty years of her life. She is said to have lived in the cold, perpetually wet cave of Sainte-Baume , near Aix-en-Provence, sleeping on a large rock which was the only part of the cave which always remained dry.
Relics of the saint are a lock of hair, the end of a tibia bone, and a gold-encased skull on display in the basilica at St-Maximin-la-Ste.-Baume.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
What Became of Mary Magdalene?
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Hair
Hair is considered to be beautiful when it is well maintained and clean. Beautiful hair is considered to be so important that some people will pay large sums of money to replace their failing hair with someone else's hair attached to their head. Some men spend large sums trying to grow their own. Many women's self-image is tied up in their beautiful hair.
All this makes what Mary of Bethany did at the house of Simon the Leper even more meaningful. As reported in John 12:3, Mary (the sister of Lazarus and Martha) took very expensive ointment and, using her hair as a towel, washed Jesus's feet. When his disciples complained that this was expensive and wasteful, Jesus instead told them that it was a wonderful act of love which would be remembered forever.
Men who had been traveling would have very dusty, dirty feet. For a woman to take her hair and use it to wipe clean the feet of a man involved several powerful emotions and taboos. Jesus was not her husband but Mary touched him and Jesus allowed it, he even praised it. To wash Jesus' feet, Mary had to dirty her hair, which could be viewed as a debasement, a lowering of herself. Doing this in front of other men who were watching could have been viewed as even more disturbing. Jesus declared it to be holy.
Remember who Jesus is: God. He is totally deserving of our worship. Apart from God, nothing else matters.
All this makes what Mary of Bethany did at the house of Simon the Leper even more meaningful. As reported in John 12:3, Mary (the sister of Lazarus and Martha) took very expensive ointment and, using her hair as a towel, washed Jesus's feet. When his disciples complained that this was expensive and wasteful, Jesus instead told them that it was a wonderful act of love which would be remembered forever.
Men who had been traveling would have very dusty, dirty feet. For a woman to take her hair and use it to wipe clean the feet of a man involved several powerful emotions and taboos. Jesus was not her husband but Mary touched him and Jesus allowed it, he even praised it. To wash Jesus' feet, Mary had to dirty her hair, which could be viewed as a debasement, a lowering of herself. Doing this in front of other men who were watching could have been viewed as even more disturbing. Jesus declared it to be holy.
Remember who Jesus is: God. He is totally deserving of our worship. Apart from God, nothing else matters.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Jesus Wept
"Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. " John 11:32-35.
Jesus wept at the tomb of his personal friend, Lazarus, who had been dead and buried for four days. Talking to Sean Hannity, Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said, "I think He cried because He had to bring Lazarus back."
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