The Gospel According to the Un-Named Women

I wonder why all the important people in the gospels, and many unimportant ones, have names, but some women who played a large role in a story did not? I wonder what they thought about this man who spoke to them as though they were worth talking to. He even learned a lesson from one of them. And one story has a different name, or none, in each of the gospels. In fact, a Pope named her Mary Magdalene. “ And so I began to put myself in their sandals, and told their stories.