Mary's church, along with what is called the "Bride's Mound"

Hi everyone!
Gosh, I couldn't think about anything to post today. I went through all of my bookmarked pages, "blog ideas" and found something useful. Kinda random, I know.
When Mary arrived in southern France, after freeing from Israel, she quickly set forth to England. Somerset, Glastonbury, is very south England -- I've provided a map... view below:

It was here, Mary started up a church. It is called, "The Brides Mound" now, what remains of it anyway-- but the church had it's day. It is said King Aurthur traveled there, and had a vision of The Virgin Mary and Jesus, also it is said to once home Saint Brigid of Kildare (my favorite saint, besides MM). More on this below.
In one corner of the almost-fallen church, is an inscription translating to: "Jesus Maria" (Picture below):

    

This church is claimed the first "above ground" Christian church -- before this, the Christians were forced underground by the  Romans.

Bride's Mound takes its name from Bride (pronounced Breed), Brigit and Brighde (pronounced Bree-dah), the Triple Goddess of the Celts. Bride was one of the most widely worshipped Goddesses in Celtic Britain and is known as the Guardian of Wells and Springs. Furthermore, She has an affinity with Fire and is entitled Keeper of the Flame and Goddess of Fire. The Grail is associated with Her through its link to the Cauldron of Inspiration which was given to the Dagda, father of Bride. Unable to remove such a powerful Deity from the Celtic people, Bride was adapted by the Roman Catholic Church into the cult of St Brigid, who founded a religious community at Kildare in Ireland.

According to legend, King Arthur was told in a dream to visit the Mary Magdalene Chapel at Beckery. Whilst doing so, he received a vision of the Virgin Mary, holding the Infant Jesus. She presented Arthur with a crystal cross which he gave to the Abbot of Glastonbury who placed it above the High Altar. This crystal cross is now said to be one of the lost treasures of Glastonbury. The experience led Arthur to adopt a new coat-of-arms, replacing the Pagan Red Dragon with a crystal cross on a green background and an image of the Virgin and Child in the top left hand corner and is said to have contributed to Arthur's conversion to Christianity.

It is also very possible that indeed Tamar, Mary's daughter, used this church to start up her secret society. It had to start somewhere, right? Indeed, all of southern France and Somerset is very rich, historic land  -- I hope to one day tour all of it, so I can get a feel for what this amazing land is like -- in fact, my family is very French, dark hair, dark eyes... typical southern French-looking people :)

Here is the link to the official "Brides Mound" website, so hit it up! It has a description on it's history, copied here (It was too long to copy the entire thing. For those of you who want to read the full thing, I suggest you go to the real website) : http://www.friendsofbridesmound.com/

"Beckery is known locally as Little Ireland; derived from the Gaelic beag Eiriu, although the true derivation of the name may be from bheach na hAorai meaning Mound of the Bees from bheachaire ay meaning Beekeeper's Island.

Medieval writings by William of Malmsbury (c.1135) and John of Glastonbury (c.1400) state that Bridget visited Glastonbury in 488 AD., which was quite usual for Celtic missionaries at that time. Both writers state that Bridget spent time at Bride's Mound where there was an oratory dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is an established fact that early Christian shrines and chapels were named after their founders so it may be that Mary Magdalene also visited Bride's Mound." 

So there we have it! Can you imagine how fun it would be to visit Bride's Mound? To those of you in England, Wales, or any surrounding areas, please do mwah a favor and go visit! Kidding, though I'd appreciate if you did!

Thank you, thank you for viewing! 

 ~~Clarabelle

Parts above may have been referenced from: glastonbury-pilgrim.co.uk 

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The Young Bride's Childhood

Hey, everyone!
The bride's childhood.
   Mary Magdalene was born in  to a rich family in Magdalena, Israel (For further debate on that, check out my last blog post: http://magdalene-beyond-the-da-vinci-code.blogspot.com/ ) on sun rise.
The family had hoped for a boy, since they had just born a older girl. Mary's father had great displeasure.
As early as six years old, Mary would have vivid dreams, where she was in love with a boy. Ohh la la! As she expressed, she thought she had two bodies and two lives, one in the dream realm, and the other in the physical. She would tell her mother all about her dreams, which of her mother despise of. Mary's mother thought it was un-normal, and disgusting. She told her daughter to shush. Now, if Mary ever told her father about her dreams, he would beat her -- obviously, that was out of the question.
Mary was an un-usual looking child, she had green eyes, appose to the dark brown israeli ones. She enjoyed art, and was sometimes spoiled by her mother -- Though her mother was strict, Mary was an obvious favorite child. Mary, though, was a troublemaker. She used to steal candy from her school, and give them to the other children in her class, when she was only nine. Every trip her mother went on, Mary would come, but often not her older sister -- which Mary had not took into account, she loved her own beauty, and loved herself.
When Mary was eleven, she inherited part of her family's mansion, and all of her maids adored her. She hated it though, and could careless about her house, she played outside and did not return until night. Her family's house was on a river, and it had a rose garden Mary played in. Also, it was a half-hour away from town, and Mary would travel there often.
  Eventually, when Mary was about 11-12, her father became a rabbi, which Mary hated. She did not like religion, and wanted nothing to do with it. When she became older, she became Shamanistic, for her love of nature and the animals.
 With even more wealth, her father moved them further south, (Mary may have acquired her name "Magdalene" from this, moving out of Magdalena) where she eventually actually meet the royal family. Technically meeting Jesus, right? Maybe not meeting him face-to-face, but that is pretty cool.

As I have posted about before, things of course went downhill. She was sold into prostitution, raped, had a child out of wedlock, then met Jesus. So things turned out GREAT for her. (I mean, she did marry the Son of God after all.)    

Mary and her sister, by Caravaggio 

Magdalene reading, by Rodiger Van der Weyden 

 

Well, I guess I never realized she was sorta a brat until I had to research it :) I guess that ended pretty quickly once she became a prostitute.   [156.] Mary said, “When new life comes to you do not cling to the old.” 

Thank ya' so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed :) 

  ~~Clarabelle 

 

 

   

Mary's nickname

   Hi everyone!
I am in good spirits today. A friend of mine just got a new car, to replace her 11 year old one, so her, I, and my best guy friend took it out for a spin -- it was wonderful. I hope y'all had a good day also -- if not, ignore me.
   Last post, I touched up on Mary Magdalene's daughter, Tamar -- today I will touch up on something interesting I read -- not telling! 
  First thing: I want to apologize for the lame-as-heck "About my blog" tab, which has NO INTENTION OF WORKING WHAT-SO-EVER. Ugh. I've tried about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g to make that dang thing work... oh well, I should probably delete it. 
  Nicknames -- I can admit I don't think I have many nicknames. Even my best of friends always just call me Clarabelle. So, let's skip to the point -(who cares about me, I'm writing a blog) A few days ago I read an interesting article relating to M Magdalene... the blog writer pointed out that in LUKE 8:2 the scripture reads (copied from King James Version (1611) ) :   "And certaine women which had bene healed of euill spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene out of whom went seuen deuils," ... he pointed out, that woman back in the first century did not have surnames, if she were married to Jesus, her name would be: "Mary of Jesus" . Yet, called "Magdalene" might not be referring to her hometown "Magdalena". "Magdalene" might be a nickname -- Jesus gave nicknames to his closest apostles. Noting the most famous one, Simon called Peter, "Peter" meaning "Rock", maybe referring to his strong or harsh attitude. James the "less" because of his short of stature or young age. The two fisherman brothers, James and John, sons of Zebedee, were nicknamed Boanerges, meaning “sons of Thunder,” ... Maybe they were loud (like thunder?)? Simon, another of the Twelve apostles was called “Simon the Zealot,” either referring to his militant bent or to his zeal for a cause. So then, "Magdalene" might come from the Hebrew or Aramaic word migdal—meaning tower. Maybe given to her because of her strong personality? I cannot think of another way you would describe your friend, if not wife as a "tower". 
   Another possibility, is that Mary self-choose it for herself, and that Mary and Jesus were instead not married, but lovers? In JOHN 19:30, we learn about a secret disciple of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a "secret" disciple of Jesus “because of his fear of the Jews.” (John 19:38) Could Mary have also been hiding from the Jews, and her name being "Mary of Jesus" a dead giveaway? She may have not married in order to protect herself.

Joseph of Arimathea 

Maria of Magdalena

Thanks for reading, once again! 

   ~~~Clarabelle 

Parts above may have been referenced from TaborBlog & B. D. B. Moses 

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