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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 77

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form us by what term the Christians in Rome dis-tinguished the superficial area from their subterranean excava-tions ; the word cemetery * referred equally to both. It is thisbroad significance of the word which lias given rise to thenotion thai the Christians sometimes actually retired to livein… … Fig. 11. Boniface I., hdbitavit Bonifacius in ccemeterio sanctce Felicitatismartiris via Solaria. By dwelling in the cemetery is evi-dently meant, in some house connected with the cemeterialchapels or basilicas, or perhaps in the villa under which thecemetery may have been originally excavated. In…

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