Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 474
he chord of the apse [v. Fig. 82). It is believed that in the fourth century the altar began to assume the form of a tomb, fi-om the practice of oovorinK relics placing beneath it the relicts of martyrs or saints. of Tiiartvrs.etc-. ^Y\\Q change of the altar from wood to stone can be better… … eration of the martyred dead. Several of these tomblike altars,from the fifth century, still survive in Rome, Ravenna, and else-where; the one discovered in the Basilica San Alessandro, sevenmiles from Rome, on the Via j^oiaentana, and that of SS. Nazzaroe Celso in Ravenna are good examples. From…
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