F a B I o L a; Or, the Church of the Catacombs,
By His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman.
HÆC, SUB ALTARI SITA SEMPITERNO,
LAPSIBUS NOSTRIS VENIAM PRECATUR
TURBA, QUAM SERVAT PROCERUM CREATRIX PURPUREORUM.
Prudentius.
HERE, BENEATH THE ETERNAL ALTAR,
LIES THAT THRONG OF ILLUSTRIOUS MARTYRS,
WHO ASK PARDON FOR OUR SINS,
AND OVER WHOM THE CITY THAT GAVE THEM BIRTH WATCHES.
A Historical Picture
OF THE
SUFFERINGS OF THE EARLY CHURCH
IN PAGAN ROME,
ILLUSTRATING THE
Glories of the Christian Martyrs
as exemplified in the lives of
The fair young Virgin, St. Agnes; the heroic Soldier, St. Sebastian;
the devoted Youth, St. Pancratius; etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
WITH A PREFACE BY
Rev. Richard Brennan, LL.D.,
Pastor of St. Rose of Lima’s Church, New York.
NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, AND ST. LOUIS:
B E N Z I G E R B R O T H E R S,
PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE.
1886.
Copyright, 1885, by Benziger Brothers.
Electrotyped by SMITH & McDOUGAL, New York.