Word Finder - catacombs

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(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

I've thrown many a man down the catacombs, and none have ever returned.

He pulled you out of the catacombs as well.

It was a despair he'd felt in the catacombs, when he'd seen nothing but death as his fate.

Parker's series of photographs taken in the catacombs by the magnesium light.'

The interments are not nearly so numerous as in other catacombs, nor are there any vestiges of painting, sculpture or inscriptions.

He is said to have baptized the emperor Philip and his son, to have done some building in the catacombs, to have improved the organization of the church in Rome, to have appointed officials to register the deeds of the martyrs, and to have founded several churches in France.

Although the idea of the use of the catacombs for religious worship may have been pressed too far, there can be no doubt that the sacred rites of the church were celebrated within them.

At Syracuse also there are very extensive catacombs known as " the Grottos of St John."

For the catacombs of Alexandria, Neroutsos Bey, L'Ancienne Alexandrie, may be consulted in addition to De Rossi's article mentioned in the text.

In the rock beneath the city there are some remarkable catacombs in part of pre-Christian origin, but containing evidence of early Christian burial; and a grotto, reputed to have given shelter to the apostle, is pointed out below the church of San Paolo.

On the other hand, we know that in the first Christian services held in the catacombs under the city of Rome, incense was burnt as a sanitary fumigation at least.

In this way the so-called " fondi d'oro "of the catacombs in Rome were made.

Very few have any reference to Christianity, but they served as indestructible marks for indicating the position of interments in the catacombs.

His Sundays were spent in the catacombs in discovering graves of the martyrs and deciphering inscriptions.

From this place it appears that the relics (whether genuine or not) were moved to the catacombs in A.D.

His original epitaph was discovered in the Catacombs.

Many Christian catacombs and Byzantine rock-cut villages, churches and tombs have been explored of recent years.

How Mahomet understood the ' In the 18th century there was discovered in one of the catacombs of Rome an inscription containing the words "qui et Filius diceris et Pater inveniris."

A more ancient Christian monument than any of the convents or churches is the catacombs, which extend a great distance underground and are in many respects finer than those at Rome.

For the catacombs see Clusium.

The catacombs on the northern slope of Mithradates Hill, of which nearly 200 have been explored since 1859, possess considerable interest, not only for the relics of old Greek art which some of them contain (although most were plundered in earlier times), but especially as material for the history and ethnography of the Cimmerian Bosporus.

It apparently underlies the symbolizing of Christ as a fish in the art of the catacombs, and.

Catacombs, whence sandstone for building has been taken, extend underneath the town and suburbs, not without some danger to the buildings.

It is estimated that there are no less than 35,000 people living from hand to mouth in the utmost misery, partly in the extensive catacombs beneath the city.

Here he was able to pursue his own studies under the guidance of the Augustinians, and to begin those labours amongst the sick and poor which gained him in later life the title of "Apostle of Rome," besides paying nightly visits for prayer and meditations to the churches of the city and to the catacombs.

Many miracles were attributed to him alive and dead, and it is said that when his body was dissected it was found that two of his ribs had been broken, an event attributed to the expansion of his heart while fervently praying in the catacombs about the year 1545.

It seems possible to trace some of the older and better frescos in the catacombs to a very early age; and Bible manuscripts were often copiously illuminated and illustrated even before the middle of the 4th century.

In the catacombs Christ is never represented hanging on the cross, and the cross itself is only portrayed in a veiled and hesitating manner.

It wasn't in Landis, in the foreign land of his birth, in the catacombs.

Taran shivered at the mention, not wanting to imagine the strong warlord of Tiyan broken by the catacombs.

I am very much looking forward to visiting again the catacombs in Rome.

These include the catacombs of Rome, The River Styx and Inner Temple.

As a Commando squad, players are tasked with infiltrating underground catacombs, sabotaging the separatists and even attempting assassination.

The great pioneer in the path of independent research, which, with the intelligent use of documentary and historical evidence, has led to so vast an increase in our acquaintance with the Roman Catacombs, was Padre Marchi of the Society of Jesus.

From the period of the rediscovery of the catacombs in the 16th century till comparatively recent times a gigantic fallacy prevailed, repeated by writer after writer, identifying the Christian burial-places with disused sand-pits.

Yet it is in this stratum, and in this alone, that the catacombs are constructed; their engineers avoiding with equal care the solid stone of the tufa litoide and the friable pozzolana, and selecting the stratum of medium hardness, which enabled them to form the vertical walls of their galleries, and to excavate the loculi and cubicula without severe labour and also without fear of their falling in.

Cemetery interment became a regular trade in the hands of the fossores, or grave-diggers, who appear to have established a kind of property in the catacombs, and whose greed of gain led to that destruction of the religious paintings with which the walls were decorated, for the quarrying of fresh loculi, to which we have already alluded.

A good plan of the catacombs at Albano (at the 15th milestone of the Appian way), discovered by Boldetti and described by De Rossi, has been published by Marucchi (Nuovo Bulletino di archeologia cristiana, 1902, pp. 89 ff.).

The year 1854 was marked by his presence in Rome at the definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin (8th December), and by the publication of his historical romance, Fabiola, a tale of the Church of the Catacombs, which had a very wide circulation and was translated into ten languages.

His original epitaph was discovered in the catacombs (see Kraus, Roma sotterranea, p. 1 54 et seq.), but nothing more is known of him.

The board would look like the catacombs of the pyramid.

Catacombs of Paris – The subterranean tunnels and caverns are gothic innature, and will appeal to the historian, the romantic and the adventurer in you.

He left the sparring level without saying a word to Ully and followed his instincts up a flight of stairs and down a narrow hall he recognized from his visit to their father.s catacombs with Kris.

To the Norwood Catacombs, there is a hidden chamber where the Exemplars meet.

When they arrived at the catacombs, Frederick took the lantern from his manservant and instructed him to wait.

How did he survive fifteen years enslaved in the catacombs by a madman?

The nights made him think fondly of his old friend, an ancient blind man who saved him from madness in the catacombs.

Vara felt a kinship with him after freeing him from the catacombs.

Of everyone he'd known since coming to this land, Vara had been the only kind one, aside from the ancient warrior in the catacombs.

Caring for the ancient warrior in the catacombs, Jame, all those years taught him compassion otherwise denied him among the dead in those underground passageways.