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A Prior of Sion in

the Cathedral dedicated to an entire pictorial cycle and a

chapel of the most sumptuous ever made, that
of the Blessed Sacrament.

by Fabrizio Loffi
The representation of the Last Supper seems
even stronger than the famous fresco by

Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. Firstly, we have

a picture in which John undoubtedly is a
woman, it is enough to observe these images

to remove any form of doubt: the face is
feminine, the features are sweet and frame a

woman, even particularly beautiful. And so
far, there is no doubt.

But here we are in front of something more.

The Last Supper is located inside the chapel
of the Blessed Sacrament in which all the

salient moments of Mary Magdalene's life are
represented, including the Last Supper. The

other incredible fact is that, as if they were
cartoons of a comic, the woman is always the

same. The scenes of the chapel are: The Noli

me Tangere, the adulteress, the washing of the

The chapel of the body of Christ in the
Cathedral of Cremona would retrace the story

of Mary Magdalene to take the same
dedication: the figure of the woman

constitutes the Fil rouge that binds works also
temporally distant between them as the two

canvases of Giulio Campi depicting "The

Magdalene at the feet of Jesus" of 1569 and
"The Last Supper" of the previous year and

"The Apparition of Christ to the Magdalene"
by Giovanni Angelo Borroni of 1750. But

there is more: the same John of the Last
Supper, with his feminine likeness, asleep on feet, the Last Supper. In all these four

the arm of Christ, it would be still her, the paintings the protagonist is only one: Mary

Magdalene, the true "cup" of the Blood of Magdalene. She is washing the feet, it is the
Christ, as bride and mother of her children. A same in the adulteress, the same in the " Do

story as old as the world, repeatedly not touch me ", it is the same in the Last

foreshadowed or left to guess, that the church Supper.
has always resolutely refused. In the

Cathedral of Cremona, the controversial Not just the same features, but almost even
figure of Mary Magdalene, instead, would be the same clothes. What about in front of a