Catacombs
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The and Christian Persecutions
The are the ancient underground cemeteries used by the Christians and the Jewish people in Rome. The Christian began in the second century and the hollowing out continued until the first half of the fifth century. In the beginning they were only burial places, bu ....
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.... Hill, it was available to everybody. Saint Paul was also buried along the Via Ostiense, a section of the .
In the first half of the second century the Christians started burying their dead underground, this is a result of donations. That is how the 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. They did open them up to their fellow people, showing the faith. As time went on and r ....
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