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)
f this buried church, frescoes were found, one ofwhich is now presented to our readers. The subject is the Assumption, as we have already observed ; and thoughRoman antiquaries, such as De Rossi, have at oncerecognised the true date of the fresco, which is actually in-scribed upon it, as we shall… … THE.ASSUMPTIONA Fresco of the T* JeAoir/ from the liypogene Church of S Qemenleat Romfe THE ASSUMPTION. 51 that the Roman doctrine concerning the Virgin Mary, andespecially concerning her Assumption, had been recognisedin the primitive Church from all but Apostolic times. The Church of St. Clement,…
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