See Classen, 151:“When the sixteenth-centuryFranciscanFrançoisdu Moulin visited the shrine ofMary Magdalene and was shown her skull with the supposed imprint ofJesus’sfingers he noted that,while monks called the relic‘Noli me tangere,’‘Do nottouch me’(in referencetoJesus’sin...
The Gospel passage also raises questions about the relative efficacy of the senses in the acquisition of knowledge and faith. Christ first appears to the Magdalene dressed as a gardener—but she cannot see through his disguise. When she hears him call her name, however, she identifies him as ...