Vatican Unveils Frescoes In Catacombs of Priscilla = Early Women Priests ??

[Coyotl]

Vatican Unveils Frescoes In Catacombs of Priscilla With Images Some Say Show Early Women Priests

By NICOLE WINFIELD 11/19/13 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/vatican--frescoes_n_4305560.html

ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, known for housing the earliest known image of the Madonna with Child — and frescoes said by some to show women priests in the early Christian church.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's culture minister, presided over the opening of the "Cubicle of Lazzaro," a tiny burial chamber featuring 4th century images of biblical scenes, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and one of the early Romans buried there in bunk-bed-like stacks as was common in antiquity.

The labyrinthine cemetery complex stretching for kilometers (miles) underneath northern Rome is known as the "Queen of the catacombs" because it features burial chambers of popes and a tiny, delicate fresco of the Madonna nursing Jesus dating from around 230-240 A.D., the earliest known image of the Madonna and Child.

More controversially, the catacomb tour features two scenes said by proponents of the women's ordination movement to show women priests: ............

[FreakinDJ]

1. Used to be Women Preist and Married Priest

I think the "Celibacy" thing came in around the 13th century and the Men Only club around the middle of the 3rd

[IrishAyes]

2. Some if not most of the original 12 apostles were married.