Enigma for the Ages; Exhibit Shows Many Faces of Mary Magdalene: Sinner and Saint, Fallen Woman and Witness From: The Washington Post | Date: June 15, 2002| Author: Chris Herlinger | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Was she a sinner? A witness? A prostitute? A muse?

She is all of these things -- or none of them. She might well have been a composite of different women.

But whoever the woman now known as Mary Magdalene was, her depiction in the Christian Gospels and in religious and secular art has exerted a powerful influence over the Western imagination.

With the exception of Jesus and his mother, probably no other figure in the Gospel narratives has been so revered or so often the su...

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