Veduta delle Catacombe di Priscilla a Roma, Italia il 2014 maggio. Dopo anni di restauro, il Vaticano pochi mesi fa ha svelato i nuovi affreschi nelle Catacombe di Priscilla, Roma. Le catacombe furono utilizzate per le sepolture dei primi cristiani della fine del II - IV secolo. Il complesso cimitero labirintico che si estende per 13 chilometri su diversi livelli sotto la Roma settentrionale è conosciuta come la "Regina delle catacombe" perché presenta delle camere di sepoltura dei papi e un piccolo e delicato affresco della Madonna che allatta Gesù risalente intorno al 230-240 d.C., La prima immagine conosciuta della Madonna e del Chi
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View of the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome, Italy on May 2014. After years of restoration, the Vatican a few months ago unveiled the new frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome. The catacombs were used for early Christians burials from the late 2nd - 4th Century. The labyrinthine cemetery complex stretching for 13 kilometers over several levels 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: One in the ochre-hued Greek Chapel features a group of women celebrating a banquet, said to be the banquet of the Eucharist. Another fresco in a richly decorated burial chamber features a woman, dressed in a dalmatic ? a cassock-like robe ? with her hands up in the position used by priests for public worship. The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests holds the images up as evidence that there were women priests in the early Christian church ? and that therefore there should be women priests today. But the Vatican has dismissed them as pure 'fable, a legend'. Lost for centuries after its entrances were sealed in ancient time, the catacombs were re-discovered in the 16th century and plundered of many gravestones, sarcophagi and bodies. Excavations in modern times began in the 19th century. The museum presents 700 fragments of finely sculpted marble sarcophaguses that were discovered buried in the catacombs of Priscilla in 1890. The Priscilla catacombs are being featured in a novel blending of antiquity and modern-technology: For the first time, Google Maps has gone into the Roman catacombs, providing a virtual tour of the Priscilla complex available to anyone who can't visit the real thing. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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