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 seventh edition of Day of the Catacombs. A press release ...

Cemeteries are naturally spooky places – fields littered with old gray stones marking dead bodies. But you know what’s spookier than cemeteries? Catacombs, those underground passages filled with human ...

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. Synod of Synodality ...

Restorers have brought Rome's largest catacombs back from the brink using laser technology, and they are expected to open areas of the tombs to the public later this year. The burial place houses some ...

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. I.—MARCH, 1858.—NO. V. -parti elette Di Roma, che son state cimitero Alla milizia che Pietro seguette. PAHADISO, C. ix. “ROMA SOTTERRANEA,”—the ...

The Appian Way — Rome’s gateway to the East — was Europe’s first super highway and the wonder of its day. Built in 312 B.C., it connected Rome with Capua (near Naples), running in a straight line for ...

Beneath a former vineyard lies a vast underground catacomb where Jewish people in Rome buried their dead nearly 2,000 years ago. While Rome has more than 40 Chris­tian catacombs, which attract ...

Hidden under Rome’s streets, ancient aqueducts, quarries, catacombs, and bunkers reveal a layered city still operating below ground.

ROME (Reuters) - Proponents of a female priesthood say frescoes in the newly restored Catacombs of Priscilla prove there were women priests in early Christianity. The Vatican says such assertions are ...

Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; Quam dives urbauum solum gacrls Sepulchris tloreat. THE results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have ...