As women historians entered the field in record ... In the Gospel of John, the risen Jesus gives her special teaching and commissions her as an apostle to the apostles to bring them the good ...

So many women were named Mary at that time ... She gets the first commission of the risen Jesus in John 20 to go to the disciples and announce that he’s risen from the dead. All of this makes her an ...

and follow Him in His risen life. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen. "She turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping?

In 1969, the Catholic Church said that the annual feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene, on 22 July, relates only to the woman who saw the risen Jesus and not the other women mentioned by Pope Gregory.