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  2. Catacomb saints - Wikipedia

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    A relic from the Holy Catacombs of Pancratius.Image taken at an exhibition at the Historical Museum St. Gallen in Wil, Switzerland. Catacomb saints were the bodies of ancient Christians that were carefully exhumed from the catacombs of Rome and sent abroad to serve as relics of certain saints from the 16th century to the 19th century. [1]

  3. Catacombs - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Christians carved the first catacombs from soft tufa rock. (ref)" (World Book Encyclopedia, page 296) (ref)" (World Book Encyclopedia, page 296) All Roman catacombs were located outside city walls since it was illegal to bury a dead body within the city, [ 4 ] providing "a place…where martyrs ' tombs could be openly marked" and ...

  4. File:Catacombs, St James's Gardens.jpg - Wikipedia

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    This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Carriage ramps and catacombs, St James's Gardens - catacombs. You can see its nomination here .

  5. Warstone Lane Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Catacombs. Warstone Lane Cemetery, (grid reference), also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery (from the adjacent Birmingham Mint), is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. It is one of two cemeteries in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley (the other being Key Hill Cemetery). It is no ...

  6. Catacombs of Rome - Wikipedia

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    He says that they did not do so, in the first place because Christians were not persecuted on a regular basis by the Roman Empire, and in the second place because the larger rooms or chambers within the catacombs were not used for regular worship, the Eucharist or assembly by Christians. White says that those catacombs' larger rooms, which had ...

  7. Christian pilgrimage - Wikipedia

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    According to Christian tradition, at some point between 818 and 842 during the reign of Alfonso II of Asturias, bishop Theodemar of Iria (d. 847) found the remains of Saint James the Greater. [7] Around the place of the discovery a new settlement and centre of pilgrimage emerged, which was known to the author Usuard in 865 [ 8 ] and by the 10th ...

  8. James the Great - Wikipedia

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    Saint James is the patron saint of Spain and, according to tradition, what are believed to be his remains are held in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. He is also known as James, son of Zebedee , Saint James the Great , Saint James the Greater , Saint James the Elder , or Saint Jacob, James the Apostle or Santiago .

  9. Baptism in early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Internet-available illustrations of ancient Christian representations of baptism from as early as the 2nd century include those in CF Rogers, Baptism and Christian Archeology, [136] the chapter "The Didache and the Catacombs" of Philip Schaff's The Oldest Church Manual Called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, [137] and Wolfrid Cote's The ...