These statements are probably somewhat exaggerated, but the undisputed fact remains that a very great number of these victims of the various persecutions were certainly interred in this hallowed city of the dead; and the unvarying tradition of the number of martyrs so interred must be taken into account, and gravely reckoned with, wherever the question of the number of Christian victims is considered.
BOOK IV
THE ROMAN CATACOMBS
THE “COME AND DINE” OF THE LAST CHAPTER OF ST. JOHN’S GOSPEL—THE MYSTIC REPAST OF THE SEVEN DISCIPLES
CEMETERY OF CALLISTUS—II CENTURY. (A FAVOURITE PICTURE IN THE CATACOMBS)