CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS IN ROME About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when we begin to get the Roman catacombs developing.

Hundreds of delegates took a break from their discussions of synodality to visit the catacombs of St. Sebastian and St. Callistus located on Rome’s ancient Appian Way on Oct. 12.

The catacombs of Rome are Paleochristian burial sites scattered around the city that were dug underground during the height of the Christian persecution. Here many of Rome’s early popes, martyrs ...

Rome is popularly known as the “Eternal City,” but there’s an even older complex located beneath the teeming streets and piazzas of the modern urban space, formed by the catacombs. Explorers ...

The foregoing extract is taken from a book by the Rev. J. Spencer Northeote, called The Roman Catacombs, or some Account of the Burial-Places of the Early Christians in, Rome: London, 1857.

Close to the Jewish catacombs are the Christian catacombs of St. Callixtus, which are among the most extensive in Rome. The second-century tombs are part of a huge burial complex.

The Appian Way — Rome’s gateway to the East — was Europe’s first super highway and the wonder of its day. Built in 312 B.C., it connected Rome with Capua (near Naples), running in a ...

Beneath a former vineyard lies a vast underground catacomb where Jewish people in Rome buried their dead nearly 2,000 years ago. While Rome has more than 40 Chris­tian catacombs, which attract ...

Restorers have brought Rome's largest catacombs back from the brink using laser technology, and they are expected to open areas of the tombs to the public later this year. The burial place houses ...

The Christian Rome underground is a rebuke to the Papal Rome above it ; and, from the worldly pomp, the tedious forms, the trickeries, the mistakes, the false claims and falser assertions, the ...