[68] Matt. v. 44.
[69] A whirlpool between Italy and Sicily.
[70] The heathen notion of the Blessed Eucharist.
[71] “Diogenes, the excavator, deposited in peace, eight days before the first of October.”—From St. Sebastian’s. Boldetti, i. 15, p. 60.
[72] “From New Street. Pollecla, who sells barley in New Street.” Found in the cemetery of Callistus.
[73] Given by F. Marchi in his Architecture of Subterranean Christian Rome, 1844; a work on which we will freely draw.
[74] The number, unfortunately, is not intelligible, being in cipher.
[75] In the cemetery of St. Agnes, pieces of lime have been found in tombs forming exact moulds of different parts of the body, with the impression of a finer linen inside, and a coarser outside. As to spices and balsams, Tertullian observes that “the Arabs and Sabæans well know that the Christians annually consume more for their dead than the heathen world did for its gods.”
[76] These terms will be explained later.
[77] On the 22d of April, 1823, this tomb was discovered unviolated. On being opened the bones, white, bright, and polished as ivory, were found, corresponding to the framework of a youth of eighteen. At his head was the phial of blood. With the head to his feet was the skeleton of a boy, of twelve or thirteen, black and charred chiefly at the head and upper parts, down to the middle of the thigh-bones, from which to the feet the bones gradually whitened. The two bodies, richly clothed, repose side by side under the altar of the Jesuits’ college at Loreto.