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The Via Anapo catacombs are a set of catacombs on the via Salaria in Rome, first built in the 3rd-4th centuries and rich in wall paintings, inscriptions and sarcophagus fragments. They were discovered on 31 May 1578 when some workers digging for pozzolana witnessed a landslide, only for the complex to be lost in another landslide and ...
Catacombs are man-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial. Any chamber used as a burial place is considered a ...
The catacombs date between the 2nd and 5th-centuries CE, and take their name from the owners of the land when they were first formally discovered and from the fact that the land was used as a vineyard (vigna). While Vigna Randanini are just one of the two Jewish catacombs in Rome open to the public, they can only be visited by appointment. They ...
It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome.It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later.
The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America [2] [3] is a Franciscan complex [nb 1] at 14th and Quincy Streets in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C. Located on a hill called Mount Saint Sepulcher, [5] and anchored by the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher, [3] it includes gardens, replicas of various shrines throughout Israel, a replica of the catacombs in Rome ...
The Catacomb of Priscilla is a large archaeological site on the Via Salaria in Rome, Italy, situated in what was a quarry in Roman times. The catacombs extend downward for over seven miles, making them one of Romes most expansive catacombs.
A drawing of the baptistry in the Catacomb of Pontian. The Catacomb(s) of Pontian is one of the catacombs of Rome on the Via Portuensis, notable for containing the original tombs of Pope Anastasius I (399–401) and his son Pope Innocent I (401–417). [1]
Ottavilla found the body and the head on May 12, 304, picked them up, wrapped Pancras in precious linen and buried him specifically in the catacombs that stood there. His head was eventually placed in a precious manner in the Basilica where the body lies in an urn reading " Hic decollatus fuit Sanctus Pancratius " ("Here Saint Pancras was ...