PART III

Victory.

I. THE STRANGER FROM THE EAST 549

II. THE STRANGER IN ROME 558

III. AND LAST 564

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF ST. AGNES, VIRGIN AND MARTYR. FRONTISPIECE.

FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY YAN DARGENT.

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ORDINATION, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 33

THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 125

THE BLESSED EUCHARIST, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 337

CONFIRMATION, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 343

BAPTISM, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 539

ADMINISTERING THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 545

A MARRIAGE, IN THE EARLY AGES OF THE CHURCH 553

FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY JOSEPH BLANC.

“WITH TREMBLING HANDS SHE DREW FROM HER NECK THE GOLDEN CHAIN” 39

“FABIOLA GRASPED THE STYLE IN HER RIGHT HAND, AND MADE AN ALMOST BLIND THRUST AT THE UNFLINCHING HANDMAID” 51

“HE WHO WATCHED WITH BEAMING EYE THE ALMS-COFFERS OF JERUSALEM, AND NOTED THE WIDOW’S MITE, ALONE SAW DROPPED INTO THE CHEST, BY THE BANDAGED ARM OF A FOREIGN FEMALE SLAVE, A VALUABLE EMERALD RING” 55

“‘HARK!’ SAID PANCRATIUS, ‘THESE ARE THE TRUMPET-NOTES THAT SUMMON US’” 95

“‘HERE IT GOES!’ AND HE THRUST IT INTO THE BLAZING FIRE” 321

“‘IS IT POSSIBLE?’ SHE EXCLAIMED WITH HORROR, ‘IS THAT TARCISIUS WHOM I MET A FEW MOMENTS AGO, SO FAIR AND LOVELY?’” 409

“EACH ONE, APPROACHING DEVOUTLY, AND WITH TEARS OF GRATITUDE, RECEIVED FROM HIS CONSECRATED HAND HIS SHARE--THAT IS, THE WHOLE OF THE MYSTICAL FOOD” 415

“PANCRATIUS WAS STILL STANDING IN THE SAME PLACE, FACING THE EMPEROR, APPARENTLY SO ABSORBED IN HIGHER THOUGHTS AS NOT TO HEED THE MOVEMENTS OF HIS ENEMY” 427

“THE JUDGE ANGRILY REPROVED THE EXECUTIONER FOR HIS HESITATION, AND BID HIM AT ONCE DO HIS DUTY” 481

“FABIOLA WENT DOWN HERSELF, WITH A FEW SERVANTS, AND WHAT WAS HER DISTRESS AT FINDING POOR EMERENTIANA LYING WELTERING IN HER BLOOD, AND PERFECTLY DEAD” 535

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THE RUINS OF THE COLISEUM, AS SEEN FROM THE PALATINE OF ST. BONAVENTURE 89

ST. LAWRENCE DISPLAYING HIS TREASURES 151

INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER 163

THE RUINS OF THE ROMAN FORUM, AS THEY ARE TO-DAY 199

THE MARTYR’S WIDOW 221

THE TOMB OF ST. CÆCILIA 227

A COLUMBARIUM, OR UNDERGROUND SEPULCHRE, IN WHICH THE ROMANS DEPOSITED THE URNS CONTAINING THE ASHES OF THE DEAD 233

THE CLAUDIAN AQUEDUCT 267

INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE USED AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS, FROM ROLLER’S “CATACOMBES DE ROME” 287

AN ATTACK IN THE CATACOMBS 349

THE MARTYR CÆCILIA 363

THE MARTYR’S BURIAL 377

THE NORTH-WEST SIDE OF THE FORUM 453

THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR 485

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.

EXCLUSIVE OF ORNAMENTAL INITIALS.

THE BARK OF PETER, AS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 12

INTERIOR OF A ROMAN DWELLING AT POMPEII 19

PLAN OF PANSA’S HOUSE AT POMPEII 20

DOOR OF PANSA’S HOUSE, WITH THE GREETING SALVE OR WELCOME 22

ATRIUM OF A POMPEIAN HOUSE 23

ATRIUM OF A HOUSE IN POMPEII 23

CLEPSYDRA, OR WATER-CLOCK, FROM A BAS-RELIEF IN THE MATTEI PALACE, ROME 25

A PORTRAIT OF CHRIST, FROM THE CATACOMB OF ST. PONTIANUS 25

A PIECE OF A “GOLD GLASS” FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 41

POMPEIAN COUCH 44

TABLE, AFTER A PAINTING IN HERCULANEUM 44

COUCH FROM HERCULANEUM 45

ELABORATE SEAT FROM HERCULANEUM 46

A SLAVE, FROM A PAINTING IN HERCULANEUM 48

A LAMP FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 57

SAINT AGNES, FROM AN OLD VASE 60

SAINT AGNES, FROM AN OLD VASE PRESERVED IN THE VATICAN MUSEUM 61

BANQUET TABLE, FROM A POMPEIAN PAINTING 67

DAVID WITH HIS SLING, FROM THE CATACOMB OF ST. PETRONILLA 71

A DOVE, AS A SYMBOL OF THE SOUL, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 81

VOLUMINA, FROM A PAINTING OF POMPEII 84

SCRINIUM, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. CALLISTUS 84

OUR SAVIOUR, FROM A REPRESENTATION FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 87

META SUDANS, AFTER A BRONZE OF VESPASIAN 91

THE ARCH OF TITUS 92

THE APPIAN WAY, AS IT WAS 102

EMBLEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF PARADISE, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 105

SAINT SEBASTIAN, FROM THE “ROMA SOTTERANEA” OF DE ROSSI 107

MILITARY TRIBUNES, AFTER A BAS-RELIEF ON TRAJAN’S COLUMN 108

THE ROMAN FORUM 114

A LAMB WITH A MILK CAN, FOUND IN THE CATACOMB OF SS. PETER AND MARCELLIN 118

ST. IGNATIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH 121

MONOGRAMS OF CHRIST, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS, 128, 169, 264, 274, 279, 324, 334, 395, 436, 472.

ROMAN GARDENS, FROM AN OLD PAINTING 130

A LAMP, WITH THE MONOGRAM OF CHRIST 134

A DEACON, FROM DE ROSSI’S “ROMA SOTTERANEA” 137

A FISH CARRYING BREAD AND WINE, FROM THE CEMETERY OF ST. LUCINA 138

A WALL PAINTING, FROM THE CEMETERY OF ST. PRISCILLA 148

CHRIST IN THE MIDST OF HIS APOSTLES, FROM A PAINTING IN THE CATACOMBS 182

INTERIOR OF A ROMAN THEATRE 185

HALLS IN THE BATHS OF CARACALLA 186

THE PEACOCK, AS AN EMBLEM OF THE RESURRECTION 189

A DOVE, AS AN EMBLEM OF THE SOUL 203

DIOGENES, THE EXCAVATOR, FROM A PAINTING IN THE CEMETERY OF DOMITILLA 205

JONAS, AFTER A PAINTING IN THE CEMETERY OF CALLISTUS 206

LAZARUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD 207

TWO FOSSORES, OR EXCAVATORS, FROM A PICTURE AT THE CEMETERY OF CALLISTUS 208

A GALLERY IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. AGNES, ON THE NOMENTAN WAY 211

INSCRIPTION OF THE CEMETERY OF ST. AGNES 212

AN ARCOSOLIUM 213

OUR SAVIOUR BLESSING THE BREAD, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 218

A STAIRCASE IN THE CATACOMBS 220

A CHAPEL OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT 224

UNDERGROUND GALLERY IN THE CATACOMBS, FROM TH. ROLLER’S “CATACOMBES DE ROME” 225

A LOCULUS, CLOSED 231

“ “ OPEN 235

A LAMB WITH A MILK PAIL, EMBLEMATIC OF THE BLESSED EUCHARIST, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 238

ST. CORNELIUS AND ST. CYPRIAN, FROM DE ROSSI’S “ROMA SOTTERANEA” 244

THE TOMB OF CORNELIUS 247

A LAMP WITH A REPRESENTATION OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, FOUND AT OSTIUM, PRIOR TO THE THIRD CENTURY, FROM ROLLER’S “CATACOMBES” 249

CUBICULUM, OR CRYPT, AS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 250

THE LAST SUPPER, FROM A PAINTING IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. CALLISTUS 251

A CEILING IN THE CATACOMBS, FROM DE ROSSI’S “ROMA SOTTERANEA” 252

OUR LORD UNDER THE SYMBOL OF ORPHEUS, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF DOMITILIUS 253

THE GOOD SHEPHERD, A WOMAN PRAYING, FROM THE ARCOSOLIUM OF THE CEMETERY OF SS. NEREUS AND ACHILLEUS 254

A CEILING IN THE CATACOMBS, IN THE CEMETERY OF DOMITILLA, THIRD CENTURY 255

THE FISHES AND ANCHOR, THE FISHES AND DOVES 256

THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND THE MAGI, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF CALLISTUS 258

MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK, FROM THE CEMETERY OF “INTER DUOS LAUROS” 260

MAXIMILIAN HERCULEUS, FROM A BRONZE MEDAL IN THE COLLECTION OF FRANCE 266

THE PEACOCK, AS AN EMBLEM OF THE RESURRECTION, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 284

CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 290

ST. PUDENTIANA, ST. PRISCILLA, AND ST. PRAXEDES 293

OUR SAVIOUR REPRESENTED AS THE GOOD SHEPHERD, WITH A MILK CAN AT HIS SIDE, AS FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 299

CHAIR OF ST. PETER 304

THE ANCHOR AND FISHES, AN EMBLEM OF CHRISTIANITY, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 307

“HAUGHTY ROMAN DAME! THOU SHALT BITTERLY RUE THIS DAY AND HOUR” 313

A LAMB BETWEEN WOLVES, EMBLEMATIC OF THE CHURCH, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. PRÆTEXTATUS 314

AN EMBLEM OF PARADISE, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 329

RUINS OF THE BASILICA OF ST. ALEXANDER, ON THE NOMENTAN WAY, FROM ROLLER’S “CATACOMBES DE ROME” 342

PLAN OF SUBTERRANEAN CHURCH, IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. AGNES 345

A CATHEDRA, OR EPISCOPAL CHAIR, IN CATACOMB OF ST. AGNES 346

AN ALTAR WITH ITS EPISCOPAL CHAIR, IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. AGNES 348

AN ALTAR IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. SIXTUS 352

THE CURE OF THE MAN BORN BLIND, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 355

THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. DOMITILLA 367

JESUS CURES THE BLIND MAN, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. DOMITILLA 380

THE ANCHOR AND FISH, EMBLEMATIC OF CHRISTIANITY, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 389

THE MAMERTINE PRISON 398

THE BLESSED VIRGIN, FROM A PORTRAIT FOUND IN THE CEMETERY OF ST. AGNES 402

THE COLISEUM 420

A LAMP BEARING A MONOGRAM OF CHRIST, FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 430

ELIAS CARRIED TO HEAVEN, FROM A PICTURE FOUND IN THE CATACOMBS 447

MOSES RECEIVING THE LAW, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF “INTER DUOS LAUROS” 456

CHRIST BLESSING A CHILD, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CEMETERY OF THE LATIN WAY 463

CHAINS FOR THE MARTYRS, AFTER A PICTURE FOUND IN 1841, IN A CRYPT AT MILAN 480

A BLOOD URN, USED AS A MARK FOR A MARTYR’S GRAVE 489

THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS, FROM THE CEMETERY OF ST. DOMITILLA 490

CEMETERY OF CALLISTUS 508

ORDINATION, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 531

PORTRAIT OF OUR SAVIOUR, FROM THE CATACOMB OF ST. CALLISTUS 548

CONSTANTINE, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR, AFTER A MEDAL OF THE TIME 549

DIOCLESIAN, AFTER A MEDAL IN THE CABINET OF FRANCE 550

LUCINIUS, MAXENTIUS, GALERIUS-MAXIMINUS, FROM GOLD AND SILVER MEDALS IN THE FRENCH COLLECTION 550

THE LABARUM, OR CHRISTIAN STANDARD, FROM A COIN OF CONSTANTINE 552

NOE AND THE ARK, AS A SYMBOL OF THE CHURCH, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 557

THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM, FROM A PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS 563

Part First.--Peace.