# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-magdalene
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:24.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-magdalene"
name: "Mary Magdalene"
slug: "mary-magdalene"
description: "A first-century follower of Jesus whose gospel presence as witness to crucifixion and resurrection got buried under centuries of invented identity—chiefly a 591 papal sermon that recast her, without scriptural warrant, as a repentant prostitute."
tagline: "Follower of Jesus (-100)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philippe_de_Champaigne_-_The_Repentant_Magdalen_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IL"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
deathDate: "100"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.48
  historical:           31.681572
  currentAttention:     5.111111111111112
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  46
  category: 150
tags:
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  - name: "Religion"
    slug: "religion"
  - name: "Ancient History"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The canonical gospels place her among Jesus's travelling followers, present at his death and resurrection. Gnostic texts went further, depicting her as his closest disciple, uniquely fluent in his teachings and locked in tension with Peter. Early Church Fathers mentioned her only in passing. Then Pope Gregory I's 591 sermon conflated her with other biblical women and branded her a reformed prostitute—a fiction that defined her in Western Christianity for over a millennium. The Eastern Orthodox Church never accepted the conflation, honouring her instead as a Myrrhbearer and "Equal to the Apostles." The Catholic Church eventually corrected course, emphasizing her as first witness to the resurrection and "Apostle to the Apostles." Alleged relics—skull, forehead flesh, tibia, left hand—remain enshrined in France and Mount Athos, processed annually.