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Chili · 01-27-2006, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by walt6

I have two questions.

Are there any early writings to show what happened to the disciples (or apostles)? They seem to have vanished from the scene. Is there any documentation to support Peter going to Rome.

I recently heard that there is some new evidence indicating that Mary Magdalene was a disciple and not a prostitute. Any comment on this?

Peter and Paul are our first pope and the Vatican rests on his shoulders (that is why they buried him upside down).

She's our temple tramp but not a prostitute as might think of them.
We have Churches named after Magdalene and de Madleine in Paris as a good example this.

Doug Shaver · 01-28-2006, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by walt6

I have two questions.

Are there any early writings to show what happened to the disciples (or apostles)?

Nothing early enough to be reliable. All we have are legends.

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Originally Posted by walt6

Is there any documentation to support Peter going to Rome.

Nothing contemporary, nor anything close enough. Again, just legends.

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Originally Posted by walt6

I recently heard that there is some new evidence indicating that Mary Magdalene was a disciple and not a prostitute. Any comment on this?

It's not really evidence, and it is not so new. Some apocryphal gospels found in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 portray her as Jesus' favorite disciple.

Nothing in either the canonical or the apocryphal literature says she was a prostitute. That story didn't start circulating until many centuries later.

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