The Middle Low German Version of the Legend of Mary Magdalen: A Dissertation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Our version recites in 800 lines, riming in pairs, that part of the life of M. M. Dealing with her departure with Maximinus, Lazarus, Martha and others of the seventy two apostles from the Holy Land; their miraculous voyage to, and arrival at, Marseilles; the distress and want of the apostles relieved after the third nocturnal appearance of the disembodied Mary before the royal or princely couple of the country; the latter's resulting voyage to Palestine with the storm at sea causing the death of the mother in childbirth; the miraculous preservation of mother and son on the rocky isle; the prince's stay of two years with St. Peter in Palestine; his re turn and reunion with wife and child resulting in the conversion of his land and the appointment of the two bishops.

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