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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 84

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l-place of the popes,who, beginning with Marcellinus, were buried instead in the.cemetery of Priscilla. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom in theyear 304, the year following the edict of Diocletian which con-fiscated the corporate property of the Church. The papalcemetery of Callistus must have been… … Fig. 13. — Fresco in a crypt in Cyrene. private title by the family of Pudens, or by the Acilii Glabi-riones, and was exempted from confiscation. There, at allevents, Marcellinus was buried, and other tombs dating fromthe same period of confiscation have been discovered. The primitive titles by…

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