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Show GRAVE OF MARY MAGDALENE Tradition Asserts That the "Great Sinner" of the B.ble Wn Interred In France. The tnbnbltrtnts of the rrovonce iVs-trlct iVs-trlct In sotithcm Krance c'.nlm that Xtnrr Macdalcne, the "great f'.nncr" of the r.llili'. m Ititcrroil In Sulr.t Muilni'.n i-tiBi'cl n hiimlrvj n-.'.Ui fryrn Toulon nj Marseilles. Althoush the enrthW r,':iin!n of one of the first saint", are oVclsreJ to he contained wlth'.n this chapel. It U not often TlsltoJ hj alfchtsoiT", the Ivtrolt News, states. A plctures-ine ohl woman coniHicts a mnll nutiihor ! of strangers dallv through the c! ape), i She leads them Into a crypt where I the skull of Mary SlnRi'.slene. Une-I 1 with hnnils of goM. la tvij posed to be kept. The Nine are dark, almost black. Yet the deep eyeholes and ; ilelleiitelT curved Jawbones still I arouse an Irapresvlon of besutr. In a golden shrine one sees a curl said to have been cut from the head of the snlnt who, with her hair, dried the , feet of the Savior. The hulr Is thick j and soft nnd has a gold brown luster. To the question how the saint crime ' Into l'rovenee the old guardian tells i that on account of the peri-ecut Ions of 1 Christian In I'nlcM Ir.e Mary Mug-dellne Mug-dellne and her brother, I iitunn. left their native country, 'llie ship en which they traveled happened to be ' wrecked near Mntsclllos. |