Women in the church
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Photo by: Joan Morris/Dorothy Irvin
This archaeological photograph of a mosaic in the Church of St. Praxedis in Rome shows, in the blue mantle, the Virgin Mary, foremother of women leaders in the Church. On her left is St. Pudentiana and on her right St. Praxedis, both leaders of house churches in early Christian Rome. Episcopa Theodora, “Bishop Theodora” is the bishop of the Church of St. Praxedis in AD 820.
