Thank you

How many times will it have come to our minds what it would be like to be able to hear the first Christians speak of the Faith.

Thanks to the "Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology" we can get closer to them and contemplate where they walked, where they gathered, where they prayed, where they cried and where they smiled.

As the Commission mentions on its website, the visitor: "discover architectural and artistic wonders, find stories of families from the first Christian centuries. See figures and scenes with frescoes on the walls and vaults, often based on biblical pages intertwined with images of pagan classicism. Admire characters and intuit personal stories of the dead and the society in which they were immersed."

Below are the names of four martyrs of the Great Persecution:

Zoticos, Attalos, Kamasis, Filippos

Permanent witness of Christian presence:

The Christian boat and the elements:

and there is also a virtual tour:

http://www.catacombeditalia.va/content/archeologiasacra/es/descubre-catacumbas/tourvirtuali.html

Thanks; to our Brothers that they continue speaking from the dyeing of the last floor they stepped on.

Our today is his Holy Legacy

Amen

References:

Catechism of the Catholic Church click here

28 In many ways, throughout history down to the present day, men have given expression to their quest for God in their religious beliefs and behaviour: in their prayers, sacrifices, rituals, meditations, and so forth. These forms of religious expression, despite the ambiguities they often bring with them, are so universal that one may well call man a religious being:

From one ancestor (God) made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him - though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For "in him we live and move and have our being."2

"Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology": 

http://www.catacombeditalia.va

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