Joanna Booth

Medium / Material

stone

Dimensions

28.00cm wide   38.00cm high (11.02 inches wide  14.96 inches high)

Description

Spanish, circa 1520, carved in Alabaster. Mary Magdelene is depicted holding her jar of ointments used for the cleansing of Christ's wounds. It is said that she lived as a hermit in Sainte Baume, in Southern France, for 30 years and seven times a day she was transported to Heaven by angels. From the 13th century to the present day the cave in which she lived became a Christian pilgrimage site.