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The Gospel of Mary is one of the non-apocryphal texts that has been "almost" lost to time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary
While this is conjectural, researchers believe that it could have been Mary Magdalene's Gospel, identifying her as one of the disciples of Christ, possibly the most important one, as she has the main role in most of the passion and resurrection.
Imagine how different would be twenty centuries of Christianity and Western civilization if Mary had been not only a disciple but the main one.
After all, while the others had doubts, betrayed or denied the Lord, she was ride or die.
I blame Peter, he was probably jealous and a cuck.
Wikipedia says it's apocryphal.
For reference, they define apocrypha as:
Also non-canonical in the above links to New Testament apocrypha.
A lot of those gospels are Gnostic writings. Those came around 200 AD and were a real decision in the church. Had The Gospel of Mary been front and center, Christian Theology would be very different indeed.
The Gospel of Mary isn't necessarily Gnostic, but it slots into other Gnostic texts from the time. Gnosticism was dismissed as heresy early on in the Church. There's a church father named Irenaeus who wrote a book called Against Heresies describing the movement.
This actually used to be a very contentious issue in the early church. It wasn't as rosey as some people like to paint it as. Myself as a Christian, I take it as an interesting read, but not authoritative.