The encounter between Mary Magdalene and Jesus has been called the encounter "between misery and mercy." She initially washed His feet out of contrition, and after His death, out of respect and adoration. She stayed with Our Blessed Mother at the Crucifixion. She didn't run off like the apostles.
Doctor Bryan Thatcher, founder of the Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy, will be on EWTN this Sunday, March 17, at 5 p.m. ET. Find out more information here.
Fortunately, a friend saw that this physician of the body needed some medicine for the soul and gave him a copy of a book many Catholics in the U.S. would eventually come to know and love: the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska.