Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 169
Brownlow give woodcuts of two of these, one inthe Cemetery of St. Sixtus and St. Camellia,* the otherin that of St. Soter; each is a rather lofty and veryplain building, square in plan with an apse on eachof its three sides. The woodcut gives a plan of thefirst of these, showing the stairs by which… … to be summarily executed ; persons of rank to loss ofdignity and goods, and on their refusal to renounceChristianity, with death ; imperial officials to labourin chains. Xystus or Sixtus was surprised by thesoldiers seated on his episcopalchair, surrounded by his deaconsand others, in the Cemetery…
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