Show GRAVE OF r MARY MAGDALENE tradition asserts that the great sinner of the bible was interred in france the inhabitants of the provence district in southern france claim that mary magdalene the great sinner of the bible was interred d in saint maximin chapel a hundred miles front from toulon and marseilles although the earthly remains of one of the first saints are declared to be contained within this chapel it Is not often visited by sightseers the detroit news states A picturesque old woman conducts a small number of strangers dally through the chapel she leads them into a crypt where the skull of mary magdalene lined with hands bands of gold Is supposed to be kept T the he bones are dark almost black yet the deep eye holes boles and delicately curved jaw sawbones jawbones bones still arouse an impression of beauty in a golden shrine one sees a curl said bald to have been cut from the lead head of the saint who with her hair dried the feet of the savior the hair Is thick and soft and has a goldbrown gold brown luster to the question how the saint came into provence the old guardian tells that on account of the persecutions of Christ christians inns in palestine mary mag delane and her brother lazarus left their native country the ship on which they traveled happened to be wrecked near Mars marseilles Lilles |