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                       THE CATACOMBS OF ROME.




                                 THE
                         CATACOMBS OF ROME,
                                 AND
        Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity.


                            BY THE REV.
                        W. H. WITHROW, M.A.


                   _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS._


                              London:
                       HODDER AND STOUGHTON,
                        27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

                           MDCCCLXXXVIII.




    Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ld. Printers, London and Aylesbury.




                              PREFACE.                                     5


The present work, it is hoped, will supply a want long felt in the
literature of the Catacombs. That literature, it is true, is very
voluminous; but it is for the most part locked up in rare and costly
folios in foreign