Patristic A.D. 430
“(de Con. Evang. iii. 25) While she was going with the other women, according to Matthew, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. (Matt 28:9) So we gather that there were two visions of Angels; and that our Lord too was seen twice, once when Mary took Him for the gardener, and again, when He met them by the way, and by this repeating His presence confirmed their faith. And so Mary Magdalen came and told the disciples, not alone, but with the other women whom Luke mentions.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 20:10-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗