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    The Catacomb(s) of Callixtus (also known as the Cemetery of Callixtus) is one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing...
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    overcrowding and shortage of land. The most extensive and perhaps the best known is the Christian Catacomb of Callixtus located near the Park of the Caffarella,...
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    the care of widows and orphans; Callixtus lost the funds and fled from the city, but was caught near Portus. According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard...
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  • Catacomb of Calepodius (also called the Cemetery of Calepodius) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, notable for containing the tombs of Pope Callixtus I...
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    Pope Miltiades (category Year of birth unknown)
    He was buried in the Catacomb of Callixtus at the Appian Way and venerated as a saint. Licinius, who promulgated the Edict of Milan, violated the edict...
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    Pope Eutychian (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
    the bishop of Rome from 4 January 275 to his death on 7 December 283. Eutychian's original epitaph was discovered in the catacomb of Callixtus (see Kraus...
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    Judah Ben-Hur (category Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ)
    suffering of their fellow Christians. He gives his fortune to help construct the Catacomb of Callixtus and an underground church within the catacombs. In the...
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  • the catacomb of Callixtus—were conflated at some point. The relics from the catacomb were later translated to Salamanca. Basil Watkins, The Book of Saints:...
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  • Pope Eusebius (category Year of birth unknown)
    buried in the catacomb of Callixtus. Pope Damasus I placed an epitaph of eight hexameters over his tomb because of his firm defence of ecclesiastical...
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    the Lombard invasion. The catacomb does not contain the tomb of Pope Pontian, who was interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus, nor is it named after him;...
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    (later transferred to the Catacomb of Callixtus), Pope Victor I. Epigraphic evidence exists only for Linus, with the discovery of a burial slab marked "Linus"...
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    comprises two separate miracles of Jesus, reported in the Gospels, in which Jesus used modest resources to feed thousands of followers who had gathered to...
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    Papacy in early Christianity (category History of Christianity)
    inscriptions discovered in the catacomb known as the Crypt of the Popes, indicate it to be the catacomb of Callixtus, Anicetus, Soter, Zeferinus, Urban...
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    The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ is present in the Eucharist, not merely symbolically or metaphorically...
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    "Anullinus". The Catacombs of Rome, specifically the Catacomb of Callixtus, the Catacomb of Priscilla (beneath San Martino ai Monti), the Catacomb of Balbina,...
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    inscriptions in the Roman catacombs, sometimes accompanied by the words in pace (Latin for "in peace"). For example, in the Catacomb of Callixtus, a dove and branch...
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    the catacombs, where honored Christians were interred, and where he also caused the body of Pontian to be entombed at the catacomb of Callixtus. With...
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  • Pope Caius (category Year of birth unknown)
    Caius' tomb, with the original epitaph, was discovered in the catacomb of Callixtus and in it the ring with which he used to seal his letters (see Arringhi...
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    Pliny the Younger on Christians (category Persecution of early Christians)
    (Epistulae X.96) details an account of how Pliny conducted trials of suspected Christians who appeared before him as a result of anonymous accusations and asks...
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    romesightseeing.net. Retrieved 2021-11-21. "The "Crypt of the Popes" in the Catacombs of Callixtus holds the remains of 16 popes and 60 martyrs". Aleteia — Catholic...
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    Pope Anterus (category People from the Province of Crotone)
    persecutions of Emperor Maximinus the Thracian. He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way in Rome. The site of his sepulchre...
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    A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. Most Christian denominations...
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  • Pope Felix I (category Year of birth unknown)
    of feasts says that Pope Felix was interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Via Appia. In the Roman "Feriale" or calendar of feasts, the name of Felix...
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    bodies of both Pontian and Hippolytus brought back to Rome in 236 or 237, and the former buried in the papal crypt in the Catacomb of Callixtus on the...
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    Bridges of Rome Pons Cestius Pons Fabricius Ponte Milvio Ponte Sant'Angelo Ponte Sisto Catacombs of Rome Catacomb of Callixtus Catacombs of Generosa...
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    Pope Lucius I (category Year of birth uncertain)
    extant in the catacomb of Callixtus. His relics were later brought to the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, along with the relics of Cecilia and others...
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    of Paschal. Paschal is credited with finding the body of Saint Cecilia in the Catacomb of Callixtus and translating it to the rebuild the basilica of...
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    Pope Urban I (category Year of birth unknown)
    name. However, when excavating the Catacomb of Callixtus Italian archaeologist Giovanni de Rossi uncovered the lid of a sarcophagus which suggested that...
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    Appian Way (category Venues of the 1960 Summer Olympics)
    of the Aurelian Walls Church of Domine Quo Vadis Tomb of Priscilla Catacomb of Callixtus Hypogeum of Vibia San Sebastiano fuori le mura Catacombs of St...
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    known as the Catacomb of Callixtus. Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince of Jerusalem who is descended from a royal family of Judaea, son of Ithamar, enslaved...
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