St. Mary Magdala's feast day commemorated worldwide.(Nation)(Brief Article)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: July 30, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Some 300 groups in the United States and worldwide commemorated--in poems, music, art, dance, liturgy, novenas, rituals and lectures--the feast day of St. Mary Magdala. The saint, whom some have mistakenly believed to be a prostitute, was "the apostle to the apostles."

As NCR was going to press, Mary Magdala was being celebrated in parishes, convents, diocesan offices and schools on or around July 22. Festivities in her honor stretched from Buffalo, N.Y., to Trinidad and Tobago, from Seattle to South Africa.

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