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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 139

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he other cemeteries, occurring so frequently in the Martyrologies and Lives of the Popes, appear to have been ignorantly confused with this particular spot ; a visit to the cemeteries became synonymous with a visit ad catacumbas, and the term Catacomb gradually came to be regarded as the specific…

Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism

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