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The Translation of the Relics of Mary Magdalene

Feast · translation

  • 4 May (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Leo VI brought her relics from Ephesus to the monastery of Saint Lazarus in Constantinople at the end of the ninth century — inside this dataset's era, and the reason the East keeps a second day for her that the West does not.

After The Typikon.

Commemorating

Where this is recorded

  • Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e codice Sirmondiano nunc Berolinensi, col. 658 — Mai 4, anakomide