Catacombs or Cemeteries, _see also under_ Names of Saints, _&c., and under_ Via, _and see_ Inscriptions, Itineraries, and Translation Decorations of, deductions from, 133, 147, 219, 220, 221 Exploration of-- beginning, 223 _& n._ 1 progress, 224 _et seq._ results, 219, 220-1, 224, 225, 230 _et seq._ Workers, _see_ Bosio, De Rossi, Marchi, Marucchi Extent and content of, 133 _et seq._, 220, 233 _et seq._ Jewish burials in, 4 Literature bearing on, 209-14, 226-8 Number of, De Rossi on, 232 Origin of, in general, 38 Rediscovery of, 223 _& n._ 1, 244 Restorations of, by Pope Damasus, 152 _n._ 1 Teaching in, _passim_; on Death, 309-11 Three oldest, 266 Tombs in, _passim_ Uses of, 133, 139, 220 _et alibi_; for worship, 118, 253, 258 Witness of, to _Acts of Martyrs_, 81, 82 to Christ, 308, 310, 311, 316-20 _& nn._ to Early Christian history and tradition, 105, 111-2, 133, 163 _n._ 1, 209 _et seq._, 219-21 Catalogues of Roman Bishops on date of Linus’s accession, 14 Celestinus, Pope, burial-place of, 272 Cemeteries (_see also_ Catacombs), Christian names for, 155 Cerinthian heresy, 23 _n._ 1 Chair of S. Peter, long shown, 12 Charity among Jews in Rome, 4 Charlemagne, 278 Christ, Sayings of, 366 Teaching of, contrasted with Talmudic, 366-8 With a Kid, Tertullian on, 319; M. Arnold’s verses on, 320 Witness to, of the Catacombs, 308, 310, 311, 316-20 _& nn._ _Christian Institutions_, by Dean Stanley, on the Good Shepherd, 318 _& n._ 1, 319 _n._ 1 Christian, name treated as crime, 39, 189, 191 Relatives of Emperors, 110, 112, 148, 240, 241 Religion, powerful factor in spread of, 102-3 Testimony to spread of Christianity, in the New Testament and after, 107-9 Unity, its double bond of Doctrine and Love, 118-9 Writers, early, on Numbers of Christians, 101, 208; words _cited_, 103-6 on Persecutions, &c., 36, 37, 81, 82, 163-5, 166-7, 177-91, 208; words _cited_, 103-6 Christianity, _see also_ Martyrs, Persecutions, _&c._ Early, connection of, with Judaism, 325 Growth of, 37 _et seq._, 107, 150 _& n._ 1, 151 Importance to, of history of the Jews after the last Wars, 326 _et seq._ of the Talmud, 326, 327, 348, 370 _& n._ 1 Influence on, of Rabbinical studies, 326-7 Menace of, to Judaism after the Dispersion, 355 Roman view of, after Jewish War of Extermination, 78, 79, 80