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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 97

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ncommonly inscribed to indicatemembership in the senatorial order. The Christian attitudewas that of looking forward beyond the tomb, rather thanback over the course of earthly honor and success; recessita sceculo became a familiar formula in the fourth century. Inthe third and fourth centuries the… … tone in the catacomb of Douiitilla. the Christians were to be found in every rank and in everyprofession. Nothing could be more simple than the epitaphs of theKoman bishops in the papal crypt at S. Callistus. The earliestwhich have been preserved in this cr3qjt are those of Anteros(236) and…

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

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