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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY , known as MARY MAGDALENE, a woman mentioned in the Gospels, first in See also:

Luke viii. 2, as one of a See also:company who " healed of evil See also:spirits and infirmities ... ministered unto them (Jesus and the apostles) of their substance." It is said that seven demons were See also:cast out of her, but this need not imply simply one occasion. Her name implies that she came from See also:Magdala (el-Mejdel, 3 M. N.W. from See also:Tiberias: in Matt. xv. 39 the right See also:reading is not Magdala but Magadan). She went with Jesus on the last See also:journey to See also:Jerusalem, witnessed the Crucifixion, followed to the See also:burial, and returned to prepare spices. See also:John xx. gives an See also:account of her finding the See also:tomb empty and of her interview with the risen Jesus. Mary of Magdala has been confounded (I) with the unnamed fallen woman who in See also:Simon's See also:house anointed See also:Christ's feet (Luke vii. 37); (2) with Mary of See also:Bethany, See also:sister of See also:Lazarus and Martha.

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