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| Rosa 'Mary Magdalene' 21 August 2025 |
I was educated in a Roman Catholic boarding school in Austin, Texas. This means that I have a large knowledge of Catholic doctrine and history. What my views on those two are private. I never parade my religious or political views in my blog. This does not mean that I cannot, at the very least, describe Catholic lore which is interesting in itself.
Brother Edwin Reggio, C.S.C. taught us theology. He made it approachable by using humour or uncommon logic. One day he asked us which the single incident in the bible is where Christ may have been known to write. he told us that when Mary Magdalene was about to be stoned by some angry men, Christ knelt and scribbled on the ground. The men turned around and left. Brother Edwin said that Christ may have written of the sins of the angry leader. Christ then told the woman: "Go, and sin no more".
Jesus then told her, "let him who is without sin cast the first stone", and afterwards, when everyone had left, he said to the woman, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.”
There is little written in literature about Mary Magdalene. But English Rose hybridizer, David Austin had it right when he introduced in 1998 the rose I have scanned here. It emerges pink (the harlot?) and slowly turns into white (the saint?).
Portuguese Nobel Prize winner wrote a novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ that so shocked Portugal that he left to live and then died in the island of Lanzarote. Why were they shocked? Read my blog below:
