CONTENTS.

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[Preface to the Illustrated Edition][iii]
[Author’s Preface][vii]
[List of Illustrations][xiii]
[PART I.]
Peace.
CHAP.
[I.][The Christian House][19]
[II.][The Martyr’s Boy][26]
[III.][The Dedication][32]
[IV.][The Heathen Household][42]
[V.][The Visit][58]
[VI.][The Banquet][64]
[VII.][Poor and Rich][72]
[VIII.][The First Day’s Conclusion][82]
[IX.][Meetings][88]
[X.][Other Meetings][106]
[XI.][A Talk with the Reader][119]
[XII.][The Wolf and the Fox][129]
[XIII.][Charity][135]
[XIV.][Extremes Meet][139]
[XV.][Charity Returns][149]
[XVI.][The Month of October][154]
[XVII.][The Christian Community][170]
[XVIII.][Temptation][183]
[XIX.][The Fall][190]
[PART II.]
Conflict.
[I.][Diogenes][205]
[II.][The Cemeteries][219]
[III.][What Diogenes could not tell about the Catacombs][239]
[IV.][What Diogenes did tell about the Catacombs][248]
[V.][Above Ground][261]
[VI.][Deliberations][265]
[VII.][Dark Death][275]
[VIII.][Darker Still][280]
[IX.][The False Brother][285]
[X.][The Ordination in December][291]
[XI.][The Virgins][300]
[XII.][The Nomentan Villa][308]
[XIII.][The Edict][315]
[XIV.][The Discovery][325]
[XV.][Explanations][330]
[XVI.][The Wolf in the Fold][335]
[XVII.][The First Flower][356]
[XVIII.][Retribution][368]
[XIX.][Twofold Revenge][381]
[XX.][The Public Works][390]
[XXI.][The Prison][396]
[XXII.][The Viaticum][403]
[XXIII.][The Fight][419]
[XXIV.][The Christian Soldier][431]
[XXV.][The Rescue][437]
[XXVI.][The Revival][448]
[XXVII.][The Second Crown][457]
[XXVIII.][The Critical Day: its First Part][464]
[XXIX.][The same Day: its Second Part][473]
[XXX.][The same Day: its Third Part][491]
[XXXI.][Dionysius, Priest and Physician][507]
[XXXII.][The Sacrifice Accepted][513]
[XXXIII.][Miriam’s History][523]
[XXXIV.][Bright Death][532]
[PART III.]
Victory.
[I.][The Stranger from the East][549]
[II.][The Stranger in Rome][558]
[III.][And Last][564]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Chromolithograph of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr.[Frontispiece.]
FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY YAN DARGENT.
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Ordination, in the Early Ages of the Church[33]
The Sacrament of Penance, in the Early Ages of the Church[125]
The Blessed Eucharist, in the Early Ages of the Church[337]
Confirmation, in the Early Ages of the Church[343]
Baptism, in the Early Ages of the Church[539]
Administering the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, in the Early Ages of the Church[545]
A Marriage, in the Early Ages of the Church[553]
FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY JOSEPH BLANC.
“With trembling hands she drew from her neck the golden chain”[39]
“Fabiola grasped the style in her right hand, and made an almost blind thrust at the unflinching handmaid”[51]
“He who watched with beaming eye the alms-coffers of Jerusalem, and noted the widow’s mite, alone saw dropped into the chest, by the bandaged arm of a foreign female slave, a valuable emerald ring”[55]
“‘Hark!’ said Pancratius, ‘these are the trumpet-notes that summon us’”[95]
“‘Here it goes!’ and he thrust it into the blazing fire”[321]
“‘Is it possible?’ she exclaimed with horror, ‘Is that Tarcisius whom I met a few moments ago, so fair and lovely?’”[409]
“Each one, approaching devoutly, and with tears of gratitude, received from his consecrated hand his share—that is, the whole of the mystical food”[415]
“Pancratius was still standing in the same place, facing the Emperor, apparently so absorbed in higher thoughts as not to heed the movements of his enemy”[427]
“The Judge angrily reproved the executioner for his hesitation, and bid him at once do his duty”[481]
“Fabiola went down herself, with a few servants, and what was her distress at finding poor Emerentiana lying weltering in her blood, and perfectly dead”[535]
The Ruins of the Coliseum, as seen from the Palatine of St. Bonaventure[89]
St. Lawrence Displaying his Treasures[151]
Interior of the Temple of Jupiter[163]
The Ruins of the Roman Forum, as they are to-day[199]
The Martyr’s Widow[221]
The Tomb of St. Cæcilia[227]
A Columbarium, or Underground Sepulchre, in which the Romans Deposited the Urns Containing the Ashes of the Dead[233]
The Claudian Aqueduct[267]
Instruments of Torture used against the Christians, from Roller’s “Catacombes de Rome”[287]
An Attack in the Catacombs[349]
The Martyr Cæcilia[363]
The Martyr’s Burial[377]
The North-West Side of the Forum[453]
The Christian Martyr[485]
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
EXCLUSIVE OF ORNAMENTAL INITIALS.
The Bark of Peter, as found in the Catacombs[12]
Interior of a Roman Dwelling at Pompeii[19]
Plan of Pansa’s House at Pompeii[20]
Door of Pansa’s House, with the Greeting SALVE or WELCOME[22]
Atrium of a Pompeian House[23]
Atrium of a House in Pompeii[23]
Clepsydra, or Water-clock, from a Bas-Relief in the Mattei Palace, Rome[25]
A Portrait of Christ, from the Catacomb of St. Pontianus[25]
A Piece of a “Gold Glass” found in the Catacombs[41]
Pompeian Couch[44]
Table, after a Painting in Herculaneum[44]
Couch from Herculaneum[45]
Elaborate Seat from Herculaneum[46]
A Slave, from a Painting in Herculaneum[48]
A Lamp found in the Catacombs[57]
Saint Agnes, from an Old Vase[60]
Saint Agnes, from an Old Vase Preserved in the Vatican Museum[61]
Banquet Table, from a Pompeian Painting[67]
David with his Sling, from the Catacomb of St. Petronilla[71]
A Dove, as a Symbol of the Soul, found in the Catacombs[81]
Volumina, from a Painting of Pompeii[84]
Scrinium, from a Picture in the Cemetery of St. Callistus[84]
Our Saviour, from a Representation found in the Catacombs[87]
Meta Sudans, after a Bronze of Vespasian[91]
The Arch of Titus[92]
The Appian Way, as it was[102]
Emblematic Representation of Paradise, found in the Catacombs[105]
Saint Sebastian, from the “Roma Sotteranea” of De Rossi[107]
Military Tribunes, after a Bas-Relief on Trajan’s Column[108]
The Roman Forum[114]
A Lamb with a Milk Can, found in the Catacomb of SS. Peter and Marcellin[118]
St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch[121]
Monograms of Christ, found in the Catacombs,[128], [169], [264], [274], [279], [324], [334], [395], [436], [472].
Roman Gardens, from an Old Painting[130]
A Lamp, with the Monogram of Christ[134]
A Deacon, from De Rossi’s “Roma Sotteranea”[137]
A Fish Carrying Bread and Wine,from the Cemetery of St. Lucina[138]
A Wall Painting, from the Cemetery of St. Priscilla[148]
Christ in the Midst of His Apostles, from a Painting in the Catacombs[182]
Interior of a Roman Theatre[185]
Halls in the Baths of Caracalla[186]
The Peacock, as an Emblem of the Resurrection[189]
A Dove, as an Emblem of the Soul[203]
Diogenes, the Excavator, from a Painting in the Cemetery of Domitilla[205]
Jonas, after a Painting in the Cemetery of Callistus[206]
Lazarus Raised from the Dead[207]
Two Fossores, or Excavators, from a Picture at the Cemetery of Callistus[208]
A Gallery in the Cemetery of St. Agnes, on the Nomentan Way[211]
Inscription of the Cemetery of St. Agnes[212]
An Arcosolium[213]
Our Saviour Blessing the Bread, from a Picture in the Catacombs[218]
A Staircase in the Catacombs[220]
A Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament[224]
Underground Gallery in the Catacombs, from Th. Roller’s “Catacombes de Rome”[225]
A Loculus, Closed[231]
A Loculus, Open[235]
A Lamb with a Milk Pail, Emblematic of the Blessed Eucharist, found in the Catacombs[238]
St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian, from De Rossi’s “Roma Sotteranea”[244]
The Tomb of Cornelius[247]
A Lamp with a Representation of the Good Shepherd, found at Ostium, prior to the Third Century, from Roller’s “Catacombes”[249]
Cubiculum, or Crypt, as found in the Catacombs[250]
The Last Supper, from a Painting in the Cemetery of St. Callistus[251]
A Ceiling in the Catacombs, from De Rossi’s “Roma Sotteranea”[252]
Our Lord Under the Symbol of Orpheus, from a Picture in the Cemetery of Domitilius[253]
The Good Shepherd, a Woman Praying, from the Arcosolium of the Cemetery of SS. Nereus and Achilleus[254]
A Ceiling in the Catacombs, in the Cemetery of Domitilla, Third Century[255]
The Fishes and Anchor, the Fishes and Doves[256]
The Blessed Virgin and the Magi, from a Picture in the Cemetery of Callistus[258]
Moses Striking the Rock, from the Cemetery of “Inter Duos Lauros”[260]
Maximilian Herculeus, from a Bronze Medal in the Collection of France[266]
The Peacock, as an Emblem of the Resurrection, found in the Catacombs[284]
Christ and His Apostles, from a Picture in the Catacombs[290]
St. Pudentiana, St. Priscilla, and St. Praxedes[293]
Our Saviour Represented as the Good Shepherd, with a Milk Can at His Side, as found in the Catacombs[299]
Chair of St. Peter[304]
The Anchor and Fishes, an Emblem of Christianity, found in the Catacombs[307]
“Haughty Roman dame! Thou shalt bitterly rue this day and hour”[313]
A Lamb Between Wolves, Emblematic of the Church, from a Picture in the Cemetery of St. Prætextatus[314]
An Emblem of Paradise, found in the Catacombs[329]
Ruins of the Basilica of St. Alexander, on the Nomentan Way, from Roller’s “Catacombes de Rome”[342]
Plan of Subterranean Church, in the Cemetery of St. Agnes[345]
A Cathedra, or Episcopal Chair, in Catacomb of St. Agnes[346]
An Altar with its Episcopal Chair, in the Cemetery of St. Agnes[348]
An Altar in the Cemetery of St. Sixtus[352]
The Cure of the Man Born Blind, from a Picture in the Catacombs[355]
The Woman of Samaria, from a Picture in the Cemetery of St. Domitilla[367]
Jesus Cures the Blind Man, from a Picture in the Cemetery of St. Domitilla[380]
The Anchor and Fish, Emblematic of Christianity, found in the Catacombs[389]
The Mamertine Prison[398]
The Blessed Virgin, from a Portrait found in the Cemetery of St. Agnes[402]
The Coliseum[420]
A Lamp Bearing a Monogram of Christ, found in the Catacombs[430]
Elias Carried to Heaven, from a Picture found in the Catacombs[447]
Moses Receiving the Law, from a Picture in the Cemetery of “Inter Duos Lauros”[456]
Christ Blessing a Child, from a Picture in the Cemetery of the Latin Way[463]
Chains for the Martyrs, after a Picture found in 1841, in a Crypt at Milan[480]
A Blood Urn, used as a Mark for a Martyr’s Grave[489]
The Resurrection of Lazarus, from the Cemetery of St. Domitilla[490]
Cemetery of Callistus[508]
Ordination, from a Picture in the Catacombs[531]
Portrait of Our Saviour, from the Catacomb of St. Callistus[548]
Constantine, the First Christian Emperor, after a Medal of the Time[549]
Dioclesian, after a Medal in the Cabinet of France[550]
Lucinius, Maxentius, Galerius-Maximinus, from Gold and Silver Medals in the French Collection[550]
The Labarum, or Christian Standard, from a Coin of Constantine[552]
Noe and the Ark, as a Symbol of the Church, from a Picture in the Catacombs[557]
The Sacrifice of Abraham, from a Picture in the Catacombs[563]

Interior of a Roman dwelling at Pompeii.

Part First.—Peace.

CHAPTER I.
THE CHRISTIAN HOUSE.