fallen woman, but a myth begins to grow that the sinner in this important story is mary herself. >> the idea of mary magdalene the prostitute who repented gives us a character who shows by her penitence that everybody can make it into the kingdom of heaven. >> all four of the canonical gospels, matthew, mark, luke and john, tell us of a woman that comes to jesus and anoints his feet with expensive perfume. not one gospel of the four canonical gospels identifies that woman as mary magdalene. >> how, then, did mary's name come to be wrongly associated with this famous episode from the new testament? the answer, it seems, can be found five centuries later with this man, pope gregory the