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22.7.08

St. Mary Magdalene - hymn referencing

In "Jerusalem, My Happy Home":

There Magdalen hath left her moan,
and cheerfully doth sing
with blessèd saints, whose harmony
in every street doth ring.

Is this the only reference to Mary Magdalene in our hymnody?

Textually, we believe so, though Arthur Sullivan has a tune called St. Mary Magdalene.

Labels: hymns, Mary Magdalene

— 16:15 | 2 remarks

Comments:

Don't forget the reference in "O filii et filiae" (I can't think of how it goes in English, but in the original it's "Et Maria Magdalene / Et Jacobi / Et Salome / venerunt corpus ungere.") And there must be more. Now I have to go look.

# posted by

Jaya : 26 July, 2008 11:44

I haven't stopped by this blog in a while but I guess I should come more often.

Here's a Mary Magdalene hymn by Charles Wesley, as well as references to a few others.

http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/2008/07/saint-mary-magdalene.html

# posted by

C.W.S. : 10 August, 2008 00:29

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