Mary Magdalene was the follower out of whom Jesus cast seven demons, who stood by the cross when others fled and became the first witness of the Resurrection. To her, weeping in the garden, the risen Christ first appeared, and her he sent to carry the news to the apostles, so that the church has called her the Apostle to the Apostles. The later Western image of her as a repentant prostitute is a confusion with other women in the Gospels; the New Testament knows her as the first herald of Easter.