"Magdala" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Christ the protagonist of an opera, there is comparatively little in 'Marie Magdeleine' to offend religious susceptibilities. The work is divided into four scenes: a palm-girt well outside the city of Magdala, the house of Mary and Martha, Golgotha, and the garden of Joseph of Arimathea, where occurs what a noted French critic in writing about the first performance described as 'l'apparition ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... along the lake at a fairly rapid walk to the little mud village of Magdala, the home, it is supposed, of Mary Magdalene. We stopped to breathe our horses at Khan Minyeh, the site, some scholars assert, of the once beautiful city of Capernaum, and then rode along a rocky road to Tel Hun, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... affronted by the English Government, and shut them all up in prison. Messages were sent to insist upon his releasing them, but he did not attend or understand; and at last an army was sent to land on the coast from the east, under General Napier, and march to his capital, which was called Magdala, and stood ...
— Young Folks' History of England • Charlotte M. Yonge
... fragments that remained seven baskets full. (38)And they who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. (39)And dismissing the multitudes, he entered into the ship, and came into the borders of Magdala. ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various |
