Fabiola; Or, The Church of the Catacombs

by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman

[118] Acts x.

[119] 2 Tim. iv. 21.

[120] A second or younger Pudens is spoken of.

[121] May the 19th.

[122] Verses 17, 18.

[123] It is not necessary to go into the classical uses of the word titulus.

[124] Only the Pope can say Mass on it, or a cardinal, by authority of a special bull. This high altar has been lately magnificently decorated. A plank of the wooden altar has always been preserved in St. Peter’s altar, at St. Pudentiana’s. It has been lately compared with the wood of the Lateran altar, and found to be identical.

[125] Its site is now occupied by the Caetani chapel.

[126] Prefixed to the Maurist edition of his works, or in Ruinart, i.

[127] Ο προεστως, prœpositus, see Heb. xiii. 17. Ο των Ρωμαιων προεστως Βικτωρ, “Victor bishop of the Romans.” Euseb. H. E. I. v. 24. The Greek word used is the same as in St. Justin.