22 de julio: Santa María Magdalena: la mujer que anunció la Resurrección

Saint Mary Magdalene: The Woman Who Announced the Resurrection 🌅 It is still night, and a woman with a jar of spices in her hands walks toward a tomb that will change history. Did you know that the first person to announce the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not an apostle, but a woman from Galilee named Mary Magdalene? The Gospels present her first as tormented by "seven demons" and freed by Jesus; later, as a faithful disciple who followed him to Calvary and to the empty tomb. This is the story of the woman whom Christ called, centuries later, the apostle to the apostles. In this video you will discover: 🌊 What Magdala, the prosperous fishing village in Galilee where Mary was born, was like, according to recent archaeology. ✨ What the Gospel of Luke really says about the "seven demons" from which Jesus freed her. ⛪ Why Pope Francis elevated her liturgical memorial to a feast day in 2016, with the title "Apostles of the Apostles." 🕊️ What happened in the garden on Easter morning, according to John 20, when Jesus called her by name. The story of Mary Magdalene matters because it brings back, beyond centuries of legend, the real woman of the Gospels: the first witness of the Resurrection, sent to announce it to those who still dared not believe. If this story moves you, we invite you to explore the rest of the series and subscribe so you don't miss the next episodes. #HistoryOfTheSaints #FidesViva #SaintMaryMagdalene #MaryMagdalene #ApostleOfTheApostles #July22 #Resurrection 📌 Chapters 0:00 The Woman of Magdala 4:33 Seven Demons Lost 7:27 Those Who Served with Their Possessions 10:03 She Who Did Not Flee 13:52 The Sabbath Without Voice 15:57 “Mary” — “Rabboni” 19:41 I Have Seen the Lord 22:23 The Memory of the Church 27:43 Called by Our Name 📚 Sources SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY — “The Saints of God”: Saint Mary Magdalene Primary Sources (Sacred Scripture and Magisterium): Holy Bible: Gospels of Luke (7:36-50; 8:1-3; 24), John (19:25; 20:1-18), Matthew (27-28) and Mark (15-16). Official EEC version / Jerusalem Bible. Congregation for Divine Worship, Decree and note “Apostolorum Apostola” (card. R. Sarah; Bishop A. Roche), June 3, 2016 — Holy See. Saint Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia (hom. 25 and 33), 591–593. Saint Thomas Aquinas, In Ioannem Evangelistam Expositio, c. XX. Roman Martyrology (ed. 2004) and Liturgy of the Hours, proper to July 22. Hagiographic and academic sources: Bollandistas, Acta Sanctorum, Iulii t. V (1727). (Ps.) Rabanus Maurus, De vita beatae Mariae Magdalenae. Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea (c. 1260). Alban Butler, Butler's Lives of the Saints (July 22). Katherine L. Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen (Princeton University Press, 2000). Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene: A Biography (Doubleday, 2005). Henri Daniel-Rops, Histoire de l'Église du Christ (Fayard). Archaeology and Sites: Magdala Archaeological Project (Anáhuac University Mexico – Israel Antiquities Authority), 2009–2019 — magdala.org. “Magdala Stone,” Rockefeller Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority. Basilica and relics of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Dominicans). Reference and context: ACI Prensa (2016); EWTN News (2025). Leo XIV, 267th Pope (Holy See, vatican.va), reigning pontiff in 2026. Iconographic references: Fra Angelico, "Noli me tangere" (St. Mark's Basilica, Florence, c. 1440); Giotto (Scrovegni, Padua, c. 1305); Donatello, "Penitent Magdalene" (c. 1455); Georges de La Tour, "Magdalene of the Smoking Flame" (c. 1640); Christ Pantocrator (Sinai, 6th century). The traditions of Ephesus and Provence are presented as a living memory of the Church, distinct from documented history.