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To: internet:[log in to unmask] Thanks for the ref. to the 1993 book on Mary Magdalene. Might someone be able to help me with a minor question regarding this saint? M. Coens identifies a late 9th-century addition to a litany of Amiens (prob. originally of Corbie) invoking Mary Magdalene (along with ss. Adelard, Paschase and Precord!). Now, I haven't seen the ms., but this dating of the addition doesn't sound right to me for a number of reasons, not the least of which is my understanding that Magdalene's cult wasn't really active in France prior to the eleventh century or so. I am quite uncomfortable with an invocation of ss. Paschase and Precord, and even Adelard, in a late ninth-century hand; but are there precedents for a ninth century cult of Mary Magdalene in N. Francia? Thanks, Dave Van Meter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%