After decades of restoration, Rome’s Domitilla catacombs will open to the public later this year. The Domitilla catacombs stretch nearly 7.5 miles and house 26,000 tombs, making them the largest ...

First of all, catacombs are a peculiar phenomenon in the area around Rome; they're always outside the city, as all burials had to be, but it's a peculiar geologic formation.

The catacombs proper, to which entrance may be bad from the Basilica of St. Sebastian, are of little importance in themselves, and have lost, by frequent alteration and by the erection of works of ...

Seven catacombs will be open in Rome on Saturday, March 2, for Catacombs Day. Free entry is planned for everyone, although it is necessary to book online on the sites to gain access.

Last Monday, Pope Francis celebrated the feast of All Soul’s with a Mass held in the ancient catacombs of Priscilla in Rome.

Life has been discovered in the barren depths of Rome's ancient tombs, proving catacombs are not just a resting place for the dead. The two new species of bacteria found growing on the walls of ...

On Saturday, October 12, on the occasion of the VII Day of the Catacombs and in preparation for the Jubilee, the Vatican will open some Roman catacombs usually closed to the public, such as St.

The Roman catacombs consist for the most part of a subterranean labyrinth of passages, cut through the soft volcanic rock of the Campagna, so narrow as rarely to admit of two persons walking ...

CHRISTIAN CATACOMBS IN ROME About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of the third century, is also when we begin to get the Roman catacombs developing.