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Hardback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from Church in the Catacombs: A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome; Illustrated by Its Sepulchral Remains St. Jerome has left us a lively… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: Forgotten Books], Excerpt from Church in the Catacombs: A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome; Illustrated by Its Sepulchral Remains St. Jerome has left us a lively picture of their state during the early part of his lifetime that is, about the middle of the fourth century. When I was at Rome, says the monk of Palestine, still a youth, and employed in literary pursuits, I was accustomed, in company with others of my own age, and actuated by the same feelings, to visit on Sundays the sepulchres of the apostles and martyrs; and often to go down into the crypts dug in the heart of the earth, where the walls on either side are lined with the dead; and so intense is the darkness, that we almost realise the words of the prophet, 'they go down alive into hell' (or Hades), and here and there a scanty aperture, ill deserving the name of window, admits scarcely light enough to mitigate the gloom which reigns below: and as we advance through the shades with cautious steps, we are forcibly reminded of the words of Virgil, 'horror on all sides; even the silence terrifies the mind.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., General<

2017, ISBN: 0331205963

Gebundene Ausgabe RELIGION / Christianity / General, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Forgotten Books]