Churches
Several French churches are dedicated to Mary Magdalene:
- Église de la Madeleine, a church in Paris
- Église de la Madeleine (Besançon)
Read more about this topic: La Madeleine
Famous quotes containing the word churches:
“A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Universities are, of course, hostile to geniuses, which seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)