The testimony of the catacombs and of other monuments of Christian art : from the second to the eighteenth century, concerning questions of doctrine now disupted in the Church (1870)
hink, will in some sort give expression to the mind of him who wrote them—wrote them, there is strong reason for believing, on the tomb of a youth nurtured in that great Christian school already alluded to, and speaking, as in the name of the departed, to those whom he had left on earth. Ye that… … * A small figure, in metal, pre-served at Autun, and dating, Car-dinal Pitra says, from the eleventh century. See Spicil. Solesm. t. iii.Tab. iii. n. 5. 150 THE AUTUN INSCRIPTION. one, with ever-flowing waters of enriching wisdom, andreceive the honey-sweet food of the Saviour of thesaints. Eat,…
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