Today is the feast of St Mary Magdalene, once known as 'Maudlintide'. A tender medieval prayer to the saint of healing tears, emblem of bitter grief turned to heart-piercing joy: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/07/with-springing-tears-to-spring-of-mercy.html

A radiantly lovely Mary Magdalene, with flowing golden hair, from a 15th-century Book of Hours ( http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_50001 f.93v)

One of the great lost works of Anglo-Saxon art must have been this alb embroidered in the late tenth century by St Edith, nun of Wilton Abbey and daughter of King Edgar, in which Edith depicted herself in the place of Mary Magdalene.

(from https://bit.ly/3hufPuP )

St Mary Magdalene, painted beneath the 15th-century tomb of Alice de la Pole (Chaucer's granddaughter) at Ewelme in Oxfordshire: