Mary Magdalene: Between Voice and Obscuring

How the First Witness of Christ’s Resurrection Was Defamed and Which Historical Testimonies Restore the Truth

Across the centuries, the memory of Mary Magdalene has been bent by a lasting misreading: the disciple clearly named in the Gospels was repeatedly filtered through a later fusion with other figures, until she was reduced to a convenient emblem of “penitence.” This book retraces the evidence with sobriety and precision, separating what Scripture actually says from what later tradition added.

Beginning with the canonical dossier — cross, burial, first morning — the reader follows Magdalene’s steady presence as witness and messenger of the Resurrection. The historical arc then shows how a homiletic reading at the end of the sixth century (Rome, 591) helped to fix a “collage” of three distinct narratives; and how exegetical work, history, and liturgy—especially the clarification of 1969 and the liturgical recognition of 2016—contribute to restoring each figure to her proper place.

Without sensationalism and without bending to modern fashions, the book offers a faithful, well-documented, and reverent study of Christian sources—so that Mary Magdalene’s voice may be heard again as the Gospels present her: disciple, envoy, and first bearer of the Easter proclamation.