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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.

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James the Elder, son of Zebedee and brother of John, was one of the Twelve and the first of them to die for Christ. A Galilean fisherman called from his nets, he belonged with Peter and his brother to the inner circle of three who saw the Transfiguration and the agony in the garden. He once asked for a throne beside Christ in glory and was told instead that he would drink Christ's cup; he drank it first of all the apostles, beheaded in Jerusalem about the year 44.