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)
CVS Q. paries) IIS SPLENDET PICTA DECORE LEOPONTIFEX HANC STVDVIT PRESBYTER ECCLESIAM FIERI. In the photograph (published at Rome) which we our-selves have reproduced, the abbreviated inscription isss. DOM. LEO QRS. PP. ROM. {i. e. Sanctissimus Dominus LeoQuartus Papa Romanus). If Mr. Parkers date… … - tL < il THE ASSUMPTION. 55 And thus we find that this picture of the Assumption,appealed to with such confidence, by Roman controver-siaHsts, as an evidence of all but Apostolic antiquity for thedoctrine in question, proves nothing more than that (at theearliest) after a lapse of 800 years,…
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