The truth-speaking ruler, because he preached that the lapsed 95 should weep for their crimes, was bitterly hated by all those unhappy ones. Hence fury, hence hatred followed, discord, contentions, sedition, and slaughter; and the bonds of peace were ruptured. For the crime of another, who in a time of peace had denied Christ, he was expelled the shores of his country by the cruelty of the tyrant. These things Damasus having learned, was desirous to relate briefly, that the people might recognize the merit of Marcellus. Neither Marcellus nor Marcellinus was buried in the Catacomb of Callixtus--which, as Diocletian had confiscated all the public cemeteries, was inaccessible to the Christians--but in the private crypt of the Christian matron Priscilla, on the Salarian Way. Eusebius, the successor of Marcellus, was also banished on account of the controversy concerning the “lapsed.” New light has recently been thrown on this subject by De Rossi’s discovery, in the tomb of the bishop, of the following Damasine inscription in a fragmentary condition: HERACLIVS VETVIT LABSOS [_sic_] PECCATA DOLERE EVSEBIVS MISEROS DOCVIT SVA CRIMINA FLERE SCINDITVR [IN] PARTES POPVLOS GLISCENTE FVRORE SEDITIO CAEDES BELLVM DISCORDIA LITES EXTEMPLO PARITER PVLSI FERITATE TYRANNI INTEGRA CVM RECTOR SERVARET FOEDERA PACIS PERTVLIT EXILIVM DOMINO SVB IVDICE LAETVS LITORE TRINACRIO MVNDVM VITAMQ · RELIQUIT. Heraclius forbade the lapsed to grieve for their sins. Eusebius taught those unhappy ones to weep for their crimes. The people were rent in parties, and with increasing fury began sedition, slaughter, fighting, discord, and strife. Straightway both were banished by the cruelty of the tyrant, although the ruler was preserving the bonds of peace inviolate. He bore his exile with joy, looking to the Lord as his Judge, and on the Trinacrian shore gave up the world and his life. The Heraclius mentioned in the inscription is probably the heretical leader referred to in the epitaph of Marcellus, previously given. No reference to this event occurs in any of the ecclesiastical writers, and this inscription, says Dr. Northcote, is the recovery of a lost 96 chapter in the history of the church.[138] The remains of Eusebius were brought from Sicily, the place of his exile, by his successor, Melchiades, and interred in the Catacomb of Callixtus, but not with the other bishops, the approaches to whose tomb were blocked up with earth, probably to prevent its violation by the enemies of the faith. Melchiades, with whom the long succession of Rome’s martyr bishops comes to a close, was the last of his order who was buried in the Catacombs, and De Rossi conjectures that he has discovered in the Cemetery of Callixtus his tomb, and the very sarcophagus in which he lay.[139]