The small portrait of Marie Madeleine, painted by Italian painter Raphael, exposed for the first time at the Basilica of Saint-Maximin, in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, southwestern France. Photo: AFP
Visitors queued up at a southern French basilica on Sunday to see a rediscovered painting by Italian renaissance painter Raphael.
The small portrait of Mary Magdalene is being displayed for a month in the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine basilica, which houses relics of Mary Magdalene - making it Christianity's third most important tomb.
