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 ...

Petrarch, 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 ...

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 ...

Rome is the city of antiquity, where the ruins of the Colosseum and the Forum remind us of the glories and the geeks (Nero and Caligula come to mind) of the Roman Empire. As one of the early center… ...

The Catacombs of Rome In Rome, the Vatican maintains the Christian catacombs and offers tours to the public . Tight control by the Papacy has meant that exploration has not been as extensive as ...

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.

Become a paid member to listen to this article. New York City may not be as old as some of the cities in Europe where catacombs and crypts have become major tourist destinations, but it does boast ...

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 ...