SAINT MARY MAGDALENE Nourishment Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von

Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity

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and one of the earliest and most prominent Catholic converts in Japan

SAINT MARY MAGDALENE Nourishment Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard vonSaint Mary Magdalene is one of the most important and complex women in the New Testament. She is honored as a faithful disciple of Jesus, a witness to His death, burial, and resurrection, and is often called the Apostle to the Apostles because she was the first to proclaim the risen Christ. Mary Magdalene is first introduced in the Gospel of Luke as one of several women who followed Jesus and supported His ministry. Luke identifies her as the woman