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Definition of Catacombs
1. catacomb [n] - See also: catacomb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catacombs
Literary usage of Catacombs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Among the scholarly Protestant writers on the catacombs the following deserve
credit: PIPER, Einleitung in die monumentale Theologie (Gotha, 1867); MÜLLER. ..."
2. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"So far as concerns the frescos of the Roman catacombs, the treatment is of
necessity incomplete. The reproductions which have hitherto been made of the ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"The catacombs of Syracuse are more spacious, bettor preserved, ... The catacombs
of Paris are simply the receptacle of the bones of a number of the ..."
4. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"The catacombs of Rome : as illustrating the Church of the First Three ...
The Church in the catacombs : a Description of the Principal Church of Rome. ..."
5. Italy by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1909)
"This interval is satisfactorily filled up by the catacombs, ... Most travellers
will be satisfied with a "visit to the catacombs of St. Calixtus, ..."
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