Harmonies
The Catholic Encyclopedia:
- The holy women carrying the spices start out for the
sepulchre; they are anxious
about the heavy stone.
- The angel frightened the guards by his brightness, put
them to flight, rolled away
the stone, and seated himself above the stone.
- Mary Magdalen,
Mary the Mother of James, and Salome approach the sepulchre, and see the stone rolled back, whereupon Mary
Magdalen immediately returns to
inform the Apostles.
- The other two holy women enter the sepulchre, find an
angel seated in the
vestibule, who shows them the empty sepulchre, announces the Resurrection, and commissions them to tell the
disciples.
- A second group
of holy women, consisting of Joanna and her companions, arrive at the sepulchre, enter the empty
interior, and are admonished
by two angels that Jesus has risen.