Mary Magdalene is the wife of Jesus Christ and witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. Luke 8:2–3 states that Mary had seven demons had been driven out of her by Jesus. It also states that she was one of the women who helped support Jesus' ministry financially, meaning she was likely wealthy. Known in some Christian traditions as the “apostle to the apostles,” Mary Magdalene is seen as the closed person to the Savior.
In many now Apocryphal texts that were popular at the time of early Christianity, Mary is portrayed as an apostle and/ or a prophetess and leader of the early movement. She was rejected by the early Catholic Church, and defamed in 591 when Pope Gregory I accused her of being the “sinful woman” who anointed Jesus's feet in Luke 7:36–50. Today we know her to be a prophetess on the same level as Melchizedek.
The term “Magdalene” is in reference to the city Magdala, which is from the Aramaic (Magdala) and Hebrew (Migdal) meaning “tower.” Magdala was a fishing city on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Putting these two facts together may imply that “Magdalene” is in reference that Mary was both a fisher of mankind (an apostle) and a leader (tower), a head of the Church in ancient times. Today the High Priesthood held by women is called the Magdalene Priesthood.
See 2 Moses 28:15; Zenos 9 header; Luke 8:2; John 20:1-18; Doctrines of the Saints 5b:1-14, 48-53, 61-62, 70-70, 5g:22, 8b:32, 10b:4-6, 13b:31-32, 15d:17, 42:45, 118g:13, 119:3, 16; Michelle 1:60; High Priesthood.