The cartagenera writer María del Pilar de Martín presents today Tuesday 20 June at 20:00 hours in the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center his new novel 'La Magdala'.
The novel tells the story of Myriam the Magdala and her journey through the Mediterranean from her birth in Cadiz in the bosom of a Jewish family on her way through Egypt and Carthago Nova for her initiation into knowledge and esoteric rituals to become a High Priestess Of Tanit and fulfill a mission that will change the course of history.
María del Pilar de Martín Arenas was born on December 26, 1963 in the old and disappeared Marina Hospital of Cartagena.
He published his first novel 'What I Never Told' the fruit of his Andalusian and Castilian-La Mancha roots and his youthful experiences during the dictatorship.
At present, he combines his love of history and literature with his work in the Murcian Health Service.
It is lover of cultures and civilizations of the antiquity, especially the Egyptian and the Middle Ages in Europe.
All this has led him to take courses on Medieval history and Theology in order to expand the knowledge he shapes in his literary works.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena