Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Vézelay, Church and Hill' has mentioned 'Mary Magdalene' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Saint Mary Magdalene), with its complex program of imagery in sculpted capitals and portals, is one of the outstanding masterpieces of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture. | WIKI |
| Alleged relics of Mary Magdalene can be seen inside the Basilica. | WIKI |
| About 1050 the monks of Vxc3xa9zelay began to claim to hold the relics of Mary Magdalene, brought, they said, from the Holy Land either by their 9th-century founder-saint, Badilo, or by envoys despatched by him. | WIKI |
| [3] A little later a monk of Vxc3xa9zelay declared that he had detected in a crypt at St-Maximin in Provence, carved on an empty sarcophagus, a representation of the Unction at Bethany, when Jesus' head was anointed by Mary of Bethany, who was assumed in the Middle Ages to be Mary Magdalene. | WIKI |
| The monks of Vxc3xa9zelay pronounced this to be Mary Magdalene's tomb, from which her relics had been translated to their abbey. | WIKI |
| Mary Magdalene is the prototype of the penitent, and Vxc3xa9zelay has remained an important place of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic faithful, though the actual claimed relics were torched by Huguenots in the 16th century. | WIKI |
| Mary Magdalene's relics | WIKI |
| The beginning of Vxc3xa9zelay's decline coincided with the well-publicized discovery in 1279 of the body of Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in Provence, given regal patronage by Charles II, the Angevin king of Sicily. | WIKI |
| The church of St Mary Magdalene is a former French abbey established in Vxc3xa9zelay in Burgundy-Franche-Comtxc3xa9, in the department of Yonne. | UNESCO |
| Established in the 9th century as a Benedictine abbey, the church became famous in the mid-11th century when the belief spread that it held the relics of St Mary Magdalene. | UNESCO |
| The church of St Mary Magdalene is also a masterpiece of Burgundian Romanesque art as exemplified by its architecture, capitals and carved portal. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The church of St Mary Magdalene of Vxc3xa9zelay is a masterpiece of Burgundian Romanesque art. | UNESCO |