For years, internet users have shared images of a weathered skull inside a gold reliquary shaped like a woman's head, identifying it as the genuine skull of the biblical Mary Magdalene. Examples of ...

The photographs show an authentic medieval reliquary containing a skull that the Vatican has recognized as an authentic relic of Mary Magdalene since the Middle Ages. However, challenges to the ...

The work's debated authentication has not stopped a flow of visitors to the Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume basilica. A portrait of Mary Magdalene attributed to Raphael on view at the Basilica of ...

Though the relic rarely leaves its home in France, it made its way to St. Catherine of Siena while on tour. Dozens of believers were there to see a leg bone fragment believed to have belonged to Mary ...