A catacomb filled with niches for burying the dead was discovered in 1919 beneath Villa Torlonia, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Rome. Unlike other catacombs in the city, this one was used by ...

Rome’s catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the seventh edition of Day of the Catacombs. A press release ...

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. Synod of Synodality ...

Paris may be most famous for its catacombs, explored officially by tourists in some areas, illicitly by “cataphiles” in others, but did you know that catacombs exist all around the world, including in ...

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of Venice in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The catacombs, a ...

Pope Francis celebrated Mass Saturday for the souls of the dead in Rome's Catacombs of Priscilla, saying the place of a Christian is in the safety of the hands of God, whatever the outside ...

ROME (RNS) The catacombs are included in 20 cultural itineraries unveiled by Italy’s cultural minister to mark the pope's Jubilee Year of Mercy. ROME (RNS) Beneath a former vineyard near the legendary ...

Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; Quam dives urbauum solum gacrls Sepulchris tloreat. THE results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have ...

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. I.—MARCH, 1858.—NO. V. -parti elette Di Roma, che son state cimitero Alla milizia che Pietro seguette. PAHADISO, C. ix. “ROMA SOTTERRANEA,”—the ...