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Mary Magdalene
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Mary Magdalene (măg`dələn; formerly, and still in Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, môd`lən, hence maudlin, i.e., tearful) [traditionally Greek=of Magdala Magdala (măg`dələ), in the New Testament, home of Mary Magdalene.
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], Christian saint, a woman widely venerated in Christendom. The name Madeleine is a French form of Magdalene. She appears in the New Testament as a woman whose evil spirits are cast out by Jesus, as a watcher at the Cross, as an attendant at Jesus' burial, and as one of those who found the tomb empty (Mat. 27.56,61; 28; Mark 15.47; 16; Luke 8.2; 24; John 19.25; 20). Long-standing tradition identifies her with the repentant prostitute who anointed Jesus' feet (Luke 7.36–50). Some also identify her with the sister of Martha (Luke 10.38). Because of the legend (held completely improbable by the Roman Catholic Church) that St. Mary Magdalene lived in penitence at Sainte-Baume, W Var dept., France, the grotto there became a place of pilgrimage. The principal aspect of her cult is as the penitent, hence the word Magdalen. In many of the Gnostic gospels (see Gnosticism Gnosticism (nŏs`tĭsĭzəm), dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras.
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), Mary Magdalene is favored by Jesus and is among the most prominent of his disciples. Artistic representations deal particularly with her repentance, with her bathing of the feet of Jesus, and with her meeting with Jesus after the resurrection. She appears in representations of Jesus' crucifixion and burial. Frequently she is shown with red hair. Feast: July 22.
Mary Magdalene
New Testament Saint. a woman of Magdala in Galilee whom Jesus cured of evil spirits (Luke 8:2) and who is often identified with the sinful woman of Luke 7:36--50. In Christian tradition she is usually taken to have been a prostitute. See magdalen. Feast day: July 22

Mary Magdalene
tearfully washes Christ’s feet. [N.T.: Luke 7:37–38]
See : Crying

Mary Magdalene
abjectly cleans Jesus’s feet with tears; dries them with her hair. [N.T.: Luke 7:37–50]
See : Penitence

Mary Magdalene
repentant prostitute who anointed Jesus’s feet. [N.T.: Luke 7:36–50]

Mary Magdalene
portrayed traditionally in art as weeping; whence, maudlin. [Art: Misc.]


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101) Amerikanesch in Luxemburg could mean extravagant, and an americanata in Italy came to mean any action characterized by grandiosity or exaggeration, as in la sua festa di matrimonio e stata una vera americanata, her wedding was a real Americanism.
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