[Transcriber’s Note: This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding: œ (oe ligature) διορθῶσαι or ϹΥΝΑΓΩΓ (Greek) שָׁלוֹם (Hebrew) If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter--or if marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. Additional notes are at the end of the book.] 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 languages, and inaccessible to the general reader. Recent discoveries have refuted some of the theories and corrected many of the statements of previous books in English on this subject; and the present volume is the only one in which the latest results of exploration are fully given, and interpreted from a Protestant point of view.