Underneath Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins church in Rome, the Capuchin Crypt is composed of five ... The Capuchin Catacombs, in the southern Italian town of Palermo, house the human ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

From frescoes depicting Jonas and the whale to a reconstruction of a papal crypt within the Roman catacombs and some of the earliest Christian writings, early Christian Rome holds a bounty of history.

in his many letters about Rome, dwells often on the sacredncss of the soil within the city, in whose crypts and churches so many saints and martyrs lie buried, hut hardly refers to the catacombs ...

Rome is known as the Eternal City for many ... that’s truly spine-tingling. A Crypts and Catacombs tour ($77/ticket) combines the Capuchin chapels with a bus trip to the St. Domitilla Catacombs ...

The void left by the quarries created a multifarious subterranean labyrinth, repurposed for crypts and catacombs ... the excavation of Jewish catacombs in Rome, and their subsequent exploitation ...

You want more Indy, you got more Indy—or at least you'll get it in September with the release of Indiana Jones and the Great ...

Today, Rome’s catacombs are a lure for tourists ... His remains no longer rest in the catacomb’s Crypt of San Sebastiano, however; they’re in the basilica atop the catacomb.

Was not Rome even greater ... walls of these ancient chapels and crypts. It was thus that the dawn of Christian Art lighted up the darkness of the catacombs. While the Roman nobles were decorating ...