catacombs

• “My next dream travel destination is the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo.”

  Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives

• “Apis at Memphis while they lived; and being mummied after death, were buried in catacombs prepared for them in the desert.”

  A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

• “As Louis entered the building, it occurred to him that the catacombs were the perfect place to store his doomsday portraits.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

• “The catacombs were a depressing place in a world of depressing places.”

  Into the Labyrinth

• “These underground churches were called the catacombs, and some of them may still be seen at Rome.”

  Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine

• “From the main entrance to the catacombs, which is near the barriers d'Enfer, a flight of ninety steps descends, at whose foot galleries are seen branching in various directions.”

  Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

• “-- The so-called catacombs of Paris were never catacombs in the ancient sense of the word, and were not devoted to purposes of sepulture until 1784.”

  Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

• “As at Assisi, in Italy, there are three superimposed churches, a symbol of the three states of religion; the crypt, called the catacombs, and suggestive of persecution; the fortified nave, a symbol of the body which prays, but is not afraid to fight; and the _chapelle supérieure_, the holy place of the saints of heaven, the Christian counsellors in whose care man has been confided.”

  The Automobilist Abroad

• “Only once in the catacombs is the birth of Christ taken as a subject of a painting, and this is a fresco of a very late date in the catacomb of St. Sebastian.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “The catacombs are a proof of the early introduction of Christianity, which however seems to have made its way thither, neither from Rome nor by sea, but from the neighbouring Bolsena.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

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