The Catacombs And Christian Persecutions
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The catacombs are the ancient underground cemeteries used by the Christians
and the Jewish people in Rome. The Christian catacombs, which are numerous,
began in the second century and the shoveling out continued until the first
half of the fifth century. In the beginning they were only burial pl ....
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.... Hill, this was available to
everybody. Saint Paul was also buried in a necropolis along the Via
Ostiense, a section of the catacombs.
In the first half of the second century, as a result of donations, the
Christians started burying their dead underground. That is how the
catacombs were founded. Many of them began and developed around family
tombs whose owners, newly converted Christians, did not reserve them to the
members of the family, but opened them to their fellow people, showing th ....
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