Sentences with phrase «penitent prostitute»

A note at the end credits suggests that the long - held notion Mary Magdalene was a penitent prostitute was a calumny put about by Pope Gregory I in the sixth century.

The idea caught on and was perpetuated in medieval art and literature, which often portrayed Mary as a weeping, penitent prostitute.

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She comes very early to be identified as a converted prostitute with long, flowing and usually red hair, who just before his last trip to Jerusalem anoints Jesus» head (or feet) with an expensive ointment and to the end of her long life remains a somewhat disturbed penitent.