Archaeology
PLAN OF THE GRAVES SURROUNDING THAT OF S. PETER DISCOVERED AT THE TIME OF PAUL V. (from a rare engraving by Benedetto Drei, head master mason to the Pope. The site of the tomb of S. Peter and the Fenestella are indicated by the author) 132
PLAN OF THE GRAVES SURROUNDING THAT OF S. PETER DISCOVERED AT THE TIME OF PAUL V. (from a rare engraving by Benedetto Drei, head master mason to the Pope. The site of the tomb o...
3. Chapter 3The early adoption of Christianity not confined to the poorer classes.--Instances of Roman nobles who were Christians.--The family of the Acilii Glabriones.--Manius Acilius the...
4. Chapter 4of Britain, was accused of "foreign superstition," tried by her husband, and acquitted. These words long since gave rise to a conjecture that Pomponia Græcina was a Christian, a...
5. Chapter 5Ancient temples as galleries of art.--The adornment of statues with jewelry, etc.--Offerings and sacrifices by individuals.--Stores of ex-votos found in the _favissæ_ or vaults...
6. Chapter 6The large number of churches in Rome.--The six classes of the earliest of these.--I. Private oratories.--The houses of Pudens and Prisca.--The evolution of the church from the p...
7. Chapter 7Two roads issued from the bridge called _Vaticanus_, _Neronianus_, or _Triumphalis_, the remains of which are still seen at low water between S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini and the...
8. Chapter 8The death and burial of Augustus.--His will.--The Monumentum Ancyranum.--Description and history of his mausoleum.--Its connection with the Colonnas and Cola di Rienzo.--Other m...
9. Chapter 9that some one would suddenly rise to revenge the innocent blood into which he had dipped his hands made him tremble every moment for his life; so much so that he caused the port...
10. Chapter 10Constantine--Helena, wife of Julian, Constantina, wife of Gallus Cæsar, and Constantia, who had vowed herself to chastity, and to the management of a congregation of virgins whi...
11. Chapter 11Portraits of the early Popes.--Those of SS. Peter and Paul.--The tombs of the Popes.--Their interest for the student.--The tomb of Cornelius Martyr.--Inscriptions and other monu...
12. Chapter 12the Lateran was painted by order of Nicholas III. (1277-1280). Since his time the basilica has been burned to the ground twice--in 1308 and 1360--and restored three times. Its l...
13. Chapter 13Various modes of burial in Rome.--Inhumation and cremation.--Gradual predominance of the latter.--Columbaria.--Inscription describing the organization of one of these, on the Vi...
14. Chapter 14which will bring the grand total to thirty thousand. As hardly one tombstone out of ten has escaped destruction, we may assume as a certainty that Rome was surrounded by a belt...
15. Chapter 15Sanctity of tombs guaranteed to all creeds alike.--The Christians' preference for underground cemeteries not due to fear at first.--Origin and cause of the first persecutions.--...