What are they? We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs, and Christian catacombs. But one of the things we do see in the middle of the third century is there's a growing [number] of Christian ...

What are they? We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs, and Christian catacombs. But one of the things we do see in the middle of the third century is there's a growing [number] of Christian ...

Probably there are a number of lost catacombs, too." The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century ...

His famous book Roma Sotterranea (1632 ... The majority of the Christian catacombs are now owned and managed by the Roman Catholic Church through the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.