A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of Venice in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The catacombs, a ...

Hundreds of delegates took a break from their discussions of synodality to visit the catacombs of St. Sebastian and St. Callistus located on Rome’s ancient Appian Way on Oct. 12. Synod of Synodality ...

Rome’s Jewish catacombs will open to the public for the first time on Sunday as part of a campaign to highlight diverse cultural sites throughout Italy. While Rome’s many Christian underground burial ...

Cemeteries are naturally spooky places – fields littered with old gray stones marking dead bodies. But you know what’s spookier than cemeteries? Catacombs, those underground passages filled with human ...

ROME – ROME (AP) — Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a ...

ROME (RNS) The catacombs are included in 20 cultural itineraries unveiled by Italy’s cultural minister to mark the pope's Jubilee Year of Mercy. ROME (RNS) Beneath a former vineyard near the legendary ...

Beneath a former vineyard lies a vast underground catacomb where Jewish people in Rome buried their dead nearly 2,000 years ago. While Rome has more than 40 Chris­tian catacombs, which attract ...

Italian police uncovered an illegal rubbish dump hidden in the remains of ancient Roman catacombs on Monday and sealed off the area while they investigate alleged environmental pollution. Underground ...

Synod on Synodality delegates made a pilgrimage to Rome’s catacombs Thursday where they literally “walked together” to the tombs of early Christian martyrs. Hundreds of delegates took a break from ...

Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sanctis Roma sit; Quam dives urbauum solum gacrls Sepulchris tloreat. THE results of the investigations in the catacombs during the last three or four years have ...

Custodit Domin us omnia ossa eorum. Ps. xxxiii. 20. NOT quite two miles from the city-gate known as the Porta Pia, there stands, on the left hand of the Nomentan Way, the ancient, and, until lately, ...