All Christian catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church, and no one is allowed to explore them without special permission from the Vatican. "It's not so easy to get the permission.

CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS IN ROME. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when we begin to get the Roman catacombs developing.

Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe It’s unknown who these people were in life, but their corpses were presented as saints in death.

This drawing, which appears in the Roma Sotterranea, 1869, shows a wall of a Roman catacomb as it appeared in the mid-19th century. Some of the niches are still sealed.

In the service of the Roman Church used at the removal of the bodies of the holy martyrs from their graves in the catacombs is a prayer in which are the words,—“ Thou hast set the bodies of ...

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.

ROME (RNS) The catacombs are included in 20 cultural itineraries unveiled by Italy’s cultural minister to mark the pope's Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of ...

According to the Rome Museum, construction of the catacombs began in the 2nd century and lasted for roughly 300 years.During this time, pagan, Jewish and Christian citizens of Rome were buried ...

The Roman catacombs consist for the most part of a subterranean labyrinth of passages, cut through the soft volcanic rock of the Campagna, ...