Rome may be the Eternal City, but popes are mere mortal men. The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes over the past 1,961 years are buried in Rome, in dozens of crypts, catacombs, and ...

Like the Capuchin Crypt in Rome, many such places were constructed by religious orders in reverence of those passed. Others, like the famous Catacombs in Paris, were built strictly out of necessity.

The catacombs of Rome contain Christian art of both beauty and complexity. This work was drawn on a ceiling near the Crypts of Lucina and has been interpreted as an image of Daniel (at center ...

The Catacombs of Rome. [Continued.] Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; ... and often to go into the crypts, which, being dug out in the depths of the earth, ...

Bodies of Christians were exhumed from the catacombs of Rome, ... and description of the remainder of Rome's subterranean cemeteries" and claimed to have found 174,000 martyrs in the crypt. ...

CHRISTIAN ART began in the catacombs. Under ground, by the feeble light of lanterns, upon the ceilings of crypts, or in the semicircular spaces left above some of the more conspicuous graves, the ...