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 172
the ^ Praetor Urbanus, he suffered martyrdom before the death of his Fabian. predecessor. His successor, St Fabian, brought the body of St Pontianus back to Rome, and buried it in this chapel, where its position, after that of St Anteros, caused some of the early chroniclers to invert the true… … intended to denote the fact of his martyrdom. It will be observed that this monogram is not cut nearly so deep as the earlier part of the inscription, and it would seem as though it had been added after the stone was fixed in its place. This suppression of the title of martyr could hardly have been…
Catacombs · Christian art and symbolism
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