2. On another page are objects used in religious devotion, almost as if they are stored for community use.  We find jars of holy oil, rosary beads, medallions with sacred images, spoons for incense, and pendants in the shape of jeweled crosses.  We look across the text, which tells us that Mary Magdalene washed Christ’s feet with her tears and dried then with her hair.  Now he appears to her, the first person to see him after the resurrection.  The reader watches the encounter as if through a window.

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