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10. Pope Gregory I in the latter sixth century issued the slur against her

and the Church refused to correct it, crushed by the burden of papal infallibility.

Mary was an inconvenient woman, a woman of some means, a woman who was a disciple, and a woman the Gnostic gospels put much closer to Jesus than many of the males. She was present at the Crucifixion and at the empty tomb afterward, or she'd have been simply written out of the story in later bible versions.