The catacombs form a network of passages, or subterranean galleries, excavated in the tufo that underlies so much of the district round Rome. At first confined in extent, and with boundaries more ...

CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS IN ROME About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when we begin to get the Roman catacombs developing.

Rome’s catacombs will be open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2.

Hundreds of delegates took a break from their discussions of synodality to visit the catacombs of St. Sebastian and St. Callistus located on Rome’s ancient Appian Way on Oct. 12.

During a summer heat wave, Rome's famous sunshine can feel incredibly intense, and the humidity really doesn't help matters. It’s easy to feel like the heat might get in the way of seeing everything ...

Rome's catacombs will open to the public for free guided tours and moments of prayer and reflection on Saturday, March 2, as part of the 7th edition of Day of the Catacombs.

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs. But Catholic church leaders falsely identified the elaborately ...

On Saturday, October 12, on the occasion of the VII Day of the Catacombs and in preparation for the Jubilee, the Vatican will open some Roman catacombs usually closed to the public, such as St.

Synod on Synodality delegates made a pilgrimage to Rome’s catacombs Thursday where they literally “walked together” to the tombs of early Christian martyrs. Hundreds of delegates took a ...

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.