But after rejecting the world and spending 47 years living naked in the desert, Saint Mary of Egypt became a wise and virtuous teacher of Christian scripture – or so 11th Century readers were ...

At that time, however, its subject was identified as Saint Mary of Egypt, as ANSA reports. Sotheby’s now identifies the subject as Mary Magdalene, though it acknowledges that the omission of the ...

The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt. (photo credit: Thomas Hawk. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0) In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and ...

Now two contemporary authors are exploring the story of St. Mary of Egypt, patron of penitence. Tradition holds that at age 12, Mary left her rural home along the Nile and went to the flesh pots ...