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Coemeterium (Latin for "cemetery", from the Ancient Greek, κοιμητήριον, koimeterion = "bedroom, resting place") was originally a free-standing, multi-roomed gravesite in Early Christianity. Bodies were buried in wall niches and under the floor.
The Campo Verano (Italian: Cimitero del Verano) is a cemetery in Rome, Italy, founded in the early 19th century.The monumental cemetery covers a surface area of 83 hectares which is currently divided into several sections: the main Catholic cemetery, the Jewish cemetery established in 1895, [1] a Protestant section with its own entrance and a military section with monument to the victims of ...
(in French) Patrick Saint-Roch, Le cimetière de Basileus ou Coemeterium sanctorum Marci et Marcelliani, Damasique, 1999. (in Italian) Joseph Wilpert, La scoperta delle basiliche cimiteriali dei Santi Marco e Marcelliano e Damaso, in Nuovo Bullettino di Archeologia Cristiana, 9 (1903), pp. 43–58.
The Catacomb of Trasone is a catacomb on the left side of the ancient via Salaria, at its junction with via Yser, in the modern-day Parioli quarter of Rome. Begun in the 3rd century, is named after Trason or Thrason, a rich Christian Roman citizen under Diocletian and the owner of the land in which it was dug - he is named in a martyrdom account of Susanna of Rome.
Pope Marcellus I (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Maxentius, he was banished from Rome in 309, on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Christians who had lapsed under the recent persecution.
The later Latin coemeterium comes from the Greek κοιμητήριον, "bedroom", according to John Chrysostom, it is so called because the people buried there are not dead, but asleep. Cemeteries could be both underground (catacombs) and above ground (areae).
Pope Urban I, also known as Saint Urban (175?–230) (Latin: Urbanus I), was the bishop of Rome from 222 to 23 May 230. [1] He was born in Rome and succeeded Callixtus I, who had been martyred.
Feriköy Protestant Cemetery (Turkish: Feriköy Protestan Mezarlığı) officially called Evangelicorum Commune Coemeterium is a Christian cemetery in Istanbul, Turkey.As its name indicates, it is the final resting place of Protestants residing in Istanbul.