Roma sotterranea : or some account of the Roman catacombs, especially of the cemetery of San Callisto (1869)
Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W. R · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 109
The Catacombs in the First Ages. 79 from that eager desire, of which we shall have occasion to speak elsewhere, to bury the dead of a later generation as near as possible to the tombs of the martyrs. As De Rossi pro- St Jan ceeded to examine these graves in detail, he could hardly … Fig. 12. — Pai)iti)ig on. I'ault of an AnosoliiDU in Cemetery of St Prcetextatns. beiieve his eyes when he read around the edge of one of them these words and fragments of words: — . . . mi Rcfri^cri Jajmarius Agatopus Fdicissivi inartyrcs — " Januarius, Agapetus, Felicis- simus, martyrs, refresh…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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