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Just finished this book by Margaret George.
NIcely written book on Mary of Magdalene who is mentioned in Bible many times. She is recently on focus after the publication of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The story starts with Magdalene as a child and goes to Jerusalem for visit with her parents. On their way back Mary meets Jesus who comes to Jerusalem with his parents. Mary stays with Jesus family for one night and then departs to Magdalene with her parents. On her way to Jerusalem she pick a idol. She grows in Magdalene. The idol is in fact a evil who possess her and invites other evils also to stay with Mary. Magdalene marry’s Joel who works for her father. They r blessed with a girl child. Mean while the demons and evil spirits possed MAry becomes active. Mary and Joel decides to take a oath to drive them away. All the efforts made by them are wasted and the the temple priest suggests that mary to go to the desert where John the Baptist is preaching. MAry takes the advice and starts for the desert. She faces too many problems and decides to end her life instead of submitting to the evil spirits. At that time she meets Jesus again who cures her driving away the sprits by commonding them to leave her. Her husband rejects her suspecting that she has cheated him and Mary becomes a follower of Jesus. The book was well written ina very simple language and story is smooth. Main incidents of Jesus and Mary are clearly brought out in the story and it is really a worth reading

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