By Saint Dirty Face (aka The Wounded Sentinel)
© 2025 Roberto Javier Salinas. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer and credits below
They called her a whore.
Because they couldn’t call her a threat.
But she was one.
She still is.
Mary Magdalene didn’t run.
Didn’t deny.
Didn’t flinch when they broke Him in half.
She watched.
She stayed.
She remembered.
And that made her dangerous.
She was the first to see Him risen.
Before Peter.
Before the disciples.
Before the Church had time to spin the story into gold.
He appeared to her first.
And what did the men do?
They called her delusional.
Dismissed her words.
Erased her name from the headline.
They turned the resurrection
into a boy’s club miracle—
and locked her gospel in the Vatican basement.
But Mary still speaks.
She speaks in the silence between verses.
In the ash of burned scrolls.
In the dreams of women who never asked permission to believe.
They say she anointed Him with oil.
But that wasn’t worship.
That was preparation.
She knew He was going to die.
She just didn’t know
the world would crucify her story too.
They tried to bury her under labels.
Prostitute.
Penitent.
Footnote.
But she wasn’t any of that.
She was a witness.
A teacher.
A gospel bearer.
The Church couldn’t handle
a woman holding the flame—
so they handed her a scarlet letter instead.
“I saw Him.
I knew Him.
I carried the truth when no one else would.”
That’s not a rumor.
That’s the first sermon.
And it came from the mouth of a woman
who refused to shut up.
Mary still speaks.
Not from pulpits,
but from cracks in the foundation.
From broken statues.
From visions the Church can’t monetize.
From voices the patriarchy still calls crazy.
She doesn’t whisper anymore.
She roars.
And when the boys in robes gather to write history again,
she’ll be standing in the shadows—
oil in one hand, torch in the other—
ready to remind them:
The resurrection wasn’t theirs to tell.
It was hers.
It still is.
⚠️ Disclaimer from The Wounded Sentinel (also known as Saint Dirty Face):
These words came to me fast and raw.
I didn’t study them. I didn’t research them.
They arrived all at once—like a lightning bolt, like a whisper from somewhere deeper.
If you want to treat this as fiction, that’s your prerogative.
But I’m not here to convince you.
I’m just here to tell you what I heard in my mind’s eye.
Take it… or leave it.
But don’t say no one told you.
© 2025 Roberto Javier Salinas. All rights reserved.
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