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The Woman the Church Misread for 1,400 Years
For 1,400 years, the church called her a prostitute.
She wasn’t.
Mary Magdalene is one of the most recognizable figures in Christian history and one of the most misrepresented. The Gospels never describe her as a sinful woman. That story came from a single sermon, preached by Pope Gregory I in 591 AD, in which he conflated three different women into one with no textual basis for doing so.
The Eastern church never accepted it. Scholars spent centuries pointing to the actual text. The Catholic Church corrected it in 1969: 1,378 years later.
The real Mary Magdalene stood at the cross when most…
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