Alcuin of York, on John 11:1

“Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister.”

“And as there were many women of this name, He distinguishes her by her well-known act: It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.”

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