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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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al-place of the popes,who, beginning with Marcellinus, were buried instead in thecemetery of Priscilla. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom in theyear 304, the year following the edict of Diocletian which con-hscated the corporate property of the Churcli. 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…

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

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