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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 335

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.There is no doubt that the church was originally called by thename of Pudens; the feminine adjective which is used in theinscription explains how there arose the popular notion thatthe church was dedicated to S. Pudentiana, who was one ofthe daughters of the senator. The women who approach… … MOSAICS — S. Pudenziana 307 the Gentiles, like the hgures which we saw in the church ofS. Sabina. S. Paul is on the right hand of Christ, and S.Peter on the left, as inscriptions beneath them signify. Thefigures of the remaining Apostles have been very much cur-tailed, and one on each side has been…

Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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