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Paperback. Condition: Good. Enter into the shadows of the Roman catacombs where early Christians attended Mass and hid in fear from Roman soldiers seeking their death for refusing to renounce the Christian Faith.
 
 You'll read dramatic acts of faith and courage as Fr. James Spencer Northcote, the world-renowned 19th-century expert on the catacombs, relates the intense belowground life of the catacombs. 
 
 For over three centuries, Christians buried their dead in often elaborate crypts hollowed out for them underground by fossors designated diggers whose status was just below that of deacons and priests.
 
 With scores of maps and illustrations in these pages, you'll see that the architecture of many crypts was as elaborate as buildings above-ground, creating under the streets and fields of Rome a second-cityindeed, a Christian city in the very heart of pagan Romegraced with broad underground tunnels and large rooms where assemblies could be held.
 
 In good times and in bad, during peace and during persecutions, the catacombs were central to the vibrant life of the early Church, whose history is here retold from its creation to its eventual decline, loss, and then, hundreds of years later, its rediscovery.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Enter into the shadows of the Roman catacombs where early Christians attended Mass and hid in fear from Roman soldiers seeking their death for refusing to renounce the Christian Faith.
 
 You'll read dramatic acts of faith and courage as Fr. James Spencer Northcote, the world-renowned 19th-century expert on the catacombs, relates the intense belowground life of the catacombs. 
 
 For over three centuries, Christians buried their dead in often elaborate crypts hollowed out for them underground by fossors designated diggers whose status was just below that of deacons and priests.
 
 With scores of maps and illustrations in these pages, you'll see that the architecture of many crypts was as elaborate as buildings above-ground, creating under the streets and fields of Rome a second-cityindeed, a Christian city in the very heart of pagan Romegraced with broad underground tunnels and large rooms where assemblies could be held.
 
 In good times and in bad, during peace and during persecutions, the catacombs were central to the vibrant life of the early Church, whose history is here retold from its creation to its eventual decline, loss, and then, hundreds of years later, its rediscovery.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Pilgrimage to La Salette; Or, a Critical Examination of All the Facts Connected With the Alleged Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Two Children On. Book.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (viii) 406 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine and some rubbing on the front cover; clipped on the upper right corner of the front endpaper; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Victor Ambrus; cover art by John Butler. This story collection contains: One of Those Funny Little Mishaps by Elizabeth Lindsay; The White Knight by Lewis Carroll; The Pony Club Camp by C. Northcote Parkinson; Gulliver Meets the Houyhnhnms by Jonathan Swift; Munchausen's Mounts by Rudolf Erich Raspe; For Cow Read Horse by Donald Lightwood; Bonny's Big Day by James Herriot; Show Time by Sandy Ransford; The Splendid Reality by Patricia Wrightson; The Horse and the Colt by Florian; Zeus and the Horse by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; The Wild White Horses by Joyce Stranger; The White Horse of Zennor by Michael Morpurgo; The Chimera by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Bone of Contention by Josephine Pullein-Thompson; Across the Deserts of Peru by A. F. Tschiffely; Fire by Anna Sewell; Winding-Up Time by Jean Ingelow; The Magician's Horse - retold by Andrew Lang; Dapplegrim - retold by G. W. Dasent; Black Shadows of Palms by Elyne Mitchell; The Fall of Troy - retold by James Reeves; The Tale of the Ebony Horse - retold by Geraldine McCaughrean; Jane Betsy and Blanche by Theophile Gautier; A Wayside Adventure by C. S. Lewis; A Horse Called Terror - retold by Felicity Trotman; The Ghost Horse by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance; Taming the Colt by Louisa M. Alcott; The Seven Foals - retold by G. W. Dasent; Sure Magic by Monica Edwards; The Perfect Partnership by CAroline Plaisted; The Valiant Chattee-Maker - retold by M. Frere; and Beach Ponies by Linda Jennings. Size: 8vo. Victor Ambrus; John Butler; (illustrator). Book.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Visit to the Roman Catacombs. Book.

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