Women at the sepulchre

In the sleeping heart of Jerusalem, women are the first to walk through the door of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher at dawn. They are Latin, Orthodox, and Ethiopian, witnesses today to that dawn of hope that turned Mary Magdalene's weeping into tears of joy. Who were those women chosen by Jesus to announce to the world the news that would change its destiny? Who are the women that 2,000 years later pray daily at the empty tomb of the Risen One, and what role do they play in the Church?