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Mary Magdalene's Bone at La Madeleine
Paris, Île-de-France, France
In the great neoclassical church that Paris dedicated to Mary Magdalene, a reliquary near the altar holds what is claimed to be a bone of the saint herself. She who first saw the risen Christ, who ran to tell the apostles 'He is risen,' is made present through this relic—one of many fragments scattered across France from the woman tradition says preached thirty years in Provence.
Reliquary of Saint Mary Magdalene at Vézelay
Vézelay, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Beneath Vézelay's great Romanesque basilica, in a crypt that has survived Revolution and restoration, a gold-and-glass reliquary holds a small, age-darkened bone. For seven centuries, Vézelay claimed Mary Magdalene's entire body; now only this rib remains, given by the rival shrine at Saint-Maximin in an act of reconciliation. Pilgrims still descend to pray where kings once knelt.