Archaeological excavations in Magdala 
- the city of Saint Mary Magdalene

We support the construction of meeting places for visitors, excavation shelters and platforms enabling visitors to visit an extremely important site for Christian archeology in Israel.
In the town of Magdala on Lake Tiberias there are the ruins of a Byzantine monastery, which were partially excavated during archaeological campaigns between 1971-77 and 2007-2012. It is assumed that in the place where there is a Byzantine building: a monastery or a church, there must have been the house of Mary Magdalene.  There are preserved testimonies of pilgrims from the 5th to 13th centuries who report that they were in Magdala, the city of Mary Magdalene, and prayed in
church built on the ruins of her house.
During excavations, alabaster vials full of nard oil from the first century were found. Mary Magdalene was the Mary from whom Christ cast out seven evil spirits, the one who accompanied Jesus and the apostles, gave her goods to their activities, and stood under the cross. After Jesus' death, she, together with other women, began the ritual of anointing Christ's body before placing it in the tomb. However, due to the Sabbath starting on Friday evening, this ritual was interrupted. On Sunday, the third day after Christ's death on the cross, she came at dawn to finish the ritual, and that's when the Risen Jesus appeared to her. 
The place is taken care of by Brother Tymoteusz from the Custody of the Holy Land.