Mary Magdalene's Grave

Fifteen thousand pilgrims annually visit St. Baume, in Provence, not far from Marseilles, where Mary Magdalene is said to have spent the last 30 years of lier life. The legend, according to the Nouvelle Revue, runs that Mary Magdalene carne from Judsea in a small boat with Lazarus, Martha, .the two Marys and Salome, bringing with them tlie body of St. Anne, ihe head of St. James the Less and a ! ■ ■ wee bones of the innocents massacred by King Hero3. But from early ages this story lias been disputed, and the Abbe Duchesne, one of the most era-' dite writers on the early Cbrisdan saints and martyrs, considers that the relies of Mary Magdalene were probably sent from Constantinople about the seventh century. A Greek breviary, however, speais of the saint as having died at Ephestis.