Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked in the desert, Saint Mary of Egypt became a wise and virtuous teacher of Christian scripture – or so 11th Century readers were ...

A young woman abandons her fathers home due to misconduct in her family environment and is thrown into a life of pleasures for a long time Unexpectedly a heavenly ...

At that time, however, its subject was identified as Saint Mary of Egypt, as ANSA reports. Sotheby’s now identifies the subject as Mary Magdalene, though it acknowledges that the omission of the ...

This week of Great Lent, the Church celebrates the memory of St. Mary of Egypt. The story of St. Mary is the story of a repentant harlot. Why does the Church find this story so important? Why does the ...