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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 20:10-18

Patristic A.D. 604
Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
“(Hom. xxv. in Evang.) Mary Magdalene, who had been the sinner in the city, and who had washed out the spots of her sins by her tears, whose soul burned with love, did not retire from the sepulchre when the others did: Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 20:10-18 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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