What you are driving at I cannot imagine," said the Englishman, "but if you mean that you will answer my question about the catacomb if I answer any question which you may put to me, I can assure you that I will certainly do so.
There is no place except a catacomb which could contain so vast a store of relics as you describe.
This new catacomb is a very intimate thing to me, and I should certainly expect some sign of confidence in return.
There is no record from what catacomb this sepulchral slab was taken.
At a short distance on the same side of the road is the Catacomb of Sts.
The traditional relic in all probability belonged to the early subterranean cemetery--leading by a door out of the left aisle of the church of St. Sebastian, to which the name of Catacombwas originally applied.
Indeed it was to the subterranean galleries under this church that the name of Catacomb was originally applied.
It was from the nave of this church that the only Catacomb which used to be visited by pilgrims was entered; all the other Catacombs which have since been opened being at that time blocked up and unknown.
On the opposite side of the Appian Way, in a vineyard, is the Catacomb of Pretextatus, which is almost as extensive as that of St. Calixtus, and hardly less interesting.
It is supposed that in thisCatacomb were interred the bodies of the Jews who were banished to the valley of Egeria by Domitian.
If possible, we would have adopted as a flag the beautiful cross in the catacomb of S.
Mr. Curzon gives a plan of this church as half catacomb or cave, and one of the earliest Christian buildings which has preserved its originality.
Gradually many other cemeteries that had been encroached upon, or surrounded, were required to yield up their dead, so that it was estimated that the catacomb contained the remains of three million persons.
Valentine, Roman martyr, is venerated in Belgium, at Hamme; this body was extracted from the catacomb of S.
Valentine, martyr at Rome, was found in the catacomb of S.
It has been erroneously supposed, by some, that this catacomb was called after Pope S.
Peter and Paul, which contains the sarcophagus brought from the Catacomb near S.
In the passages of this catacomb are misguiding inscriptions placed here in 1409 by William, Archbishop of Bourges, calling upon the faithful to venerate here the tombs of Sta.
The relics of Domitilla, with those of her servants, were preserved in the catacomb under the villa which had belonged to her Christian aunt.
In the further part of the catacomb is a long narrow chapel which has received the name of the cathedral or basilica.
Several of the paintings in this catacomb are remarkable; especially that of a woman with a child, claimed by the Roman Church as one of the earliest representations of the Virgin.
Immediately outside the Porta Pia is the entrance of the beautiful Villa Patrizi, whose grounds enclose the small Catacomb of St. Nicomedus.
Catacomb of St. Calixtus--because of a belief that he was wont to resort hither.
Lorenzo is the Catacomb of St. Hippolytus, interesting as described by the Christian poet Prudentius, who wrote at the end of the fourth century.
Two of these primitive frescos are in the Greek chapel of the Catacomb of S.
Van Dyke, in his Christ-child in Art (page 120), describes an interesting third century fresco in the catacombof SS.
He has promised to kill me for taking him to the Catacomb show, but dad never harbors revenge for long, and I guess your little nephew will pull through.
In the acts of the martyrs Liberius and Damasus, it is mentioned that in this catacomb S.
This catacomb is supposed to have belonged to the descendants of Ostorius, the pro-praetor in Britain who sent Caractacus and his wife prisoners to Claudius.
The present entrance is modern; the catacomb is interesting for its paintings.
This catacomb is about two miles outside the Porta Pia, on the Via Nomentana, and adjoins that of S.
Opposite is the Villa Patrizi, in which is the smallcatacomb of S.
Part of this catacomb under the garden of the monks is well worth a visit.
In early Christian times crypta was appropriately employed for the galleries of a catacomb, or for the catacomb itself.
These are peculiarly interesting from their similarity in form and arrangement to the catacomb chapels with which Wilfrid must have become familiar during his residence in Rome.
Although his anxiety as to the issue of his undertaking was extreme, he could not help being impressed by the grandeur of the sight presented by the catacomb thus illuminated.
His carriage rolled in the direction of Porte St. Sebastien, near which was the catacomb and the humble dwelling contiguous to it--the last morsel of the Papal domains kept by the poor monks.
The term catacombwas applied to these subterranean cemeteries at a much later period.
A part of this great catacomb is as early as the second century.
Bosio enumerates six cubicula or family burial-chapels in the cemetery or catacomb of Priscilla, and thirteen arched tombs with paintings.
That each of these chapels was the burial-place of a family, and was considered as private property, is evident from the remains of a door at the entrance of several of them, as in the catacomb of S.
This is the catacomb usually exhibited to strangers and now used for pilgrimages; its present state is very uninteresting to the archæologist.
The chapels also vary in size, but none of them would hold more than fifty people; those in the present catacomb are small.
The two lower corridors of this catacomb have tombs or cubicula on the sides; a few of these are painted, and the vault of the corridor in front of them, also.
This cemetery or catacomb is on the western side of the Tiber, about half a mile beyond the Porta Portuensis, on the road to Porto, but on the hill above, and on a higher level than the road in what is now a vineyard.
If the adjoining field belonged to the same family, the catacomb might be extended as far as the family property itself extended.
What induced such a jolly fellow as Frank Berry to marry Miss Angelica Catacomb no one can tell.
The end of the catacomb graves," writes Mommsen (Cont.
Stevenson, since dead, discovered in 1896 a small subterranean basilica in the catacomb of Santi Pietro e Marcellino on the Via Labicana, with pious acclamations on the plaster similar to those in the Papal crypt in St Calixtus.
Plan of a supposed Church, Catacomb of Sant' Agnese.
Passing to Egypt, a small Christian catacomb at Alexandria is described and figured by de Rossi.
The most remarkable of these baptisteries is that in the catacomb of San Pontianus (fig.
A catacomb of the 5th century, discovered at Kertch in South Russia, is described by J.
Agincourt, of the catacomb and of one of the circular halls, show how widely this cemetery differs in arrangement from the Roman catacombs.
This catacomb contains an unquestionable example of a church, divided into a nave and chancel, with a rude stone altar and bishop's seat behind it.
Another frequent concomitant of these catacomb interments, a small glass vessel containing traces of the sediment of a red fluid, embedded in the cement of the loculus (fig.
In one, from the cemetery of Domitilla, the Blessed Virgin sits holding the Holy Child on her lap, whilst four Magi offer their gifts; the other, from the catacomb of Sts.
Probably after having been concealed in the house of Quirinus the deacon, their bodies were buried in the cemetery or catacomb of Pontianus, outside the present Porta Portese, on the northern bank of the Tiber.
It is universally allowed that there never was a catacomb without its basilica.
It surmounts a large circular hall and a catacomb to which the titles of S.
The catacomb of the Scipios differs from most of the other burial places which surround it, on account of the retention by the gens Cornelia of the old Latin custom of burying in coffins, instead of burning the corpse of the deceased.
Such were the artists who decorated the catacomb of Seti I.
The most complete type of this class of catacomb is that left to us by Seti I.
If we go from catacomb to catacomb, we do not find many variations from this plan.
In the work of Aringhi on the Catacombs, we find it mentioned that a sarcophagus was found of the date of the very earliest centuries, whereon the story of the paralytic is represented (a very favorite simile in the Catacomb list of subjects).
In this very Catacomb of Callixtus, such a secret stairway still exists, and is illustrated by drawings in his book on this subject.
Soon it reached an archway, like that shown in our first chapter, the entrance to the catacomb of St. Callixtus, which lay beneath the grounds of the Lady Marcella.
The Lady Marcella, in whose grounds the Catacomb is, devotes much of her wealth to burying the poor of the Church, and her steward had no difficulty in purchasing from Hanno, the executioner, the mangled remains of the martyr.
Were his visits to the Catacombknown to this fashionable fop?
In a few minutes they emerged from the gloom of the Catacomb to the golden glory which was flooding the broad Campagna from the westering sun.
The tomb is a vault in the catacomb in the front projection of the base.
The base on which the column stands is seventy-two feet six inches square, with projections at the front and rear for the catacomb and memorial hall, making a total length of one hundred and nineteen feet six inches.
The first catacomb contains forty-five bodies of saints, the other eighty and the revered remains are stored in plain wood or silver-mounted coffins, duly labelled with adequate inscriptions.
We have had two months of rain, only four fine days last week, in which I went to the Crimera, to Fidenae, to Ostia, and to a touching and beautiful Mass in the heart of the Catacomb of S.
Lorenzo fuori le Mura let them admire the mighty church which for 1200 years has marked the site of that little chapel which Constantine built near the lowly catacomb grave in which the martyr was laid by his deacon Hippolytus.
As the carriage passed the entrance to the catacomb of St. Calixtus, the former soldier of the Pope turned away his head.
Catacomb of St. Priscilla reproduced in Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.
The gradual transition from paganism to Christianity is curiously illustrated by the fact that in several of the Catacomb bas-reliefs and paintings the Good Shepherd holds in His outstretched hand a Pan's pipe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catacomb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crypt; grave; tomb; vault
