Christians, _see_ Pliny’s Letter, _see also_ Idol-worship, Incense, _and_ Persecutions Accused of burning Rome, 27; and burned by Nero, 28-9 Classes composing, 101, 110-12, 148, 240, 241, 291, 296-7 _& n._ 1, 299, 307-8 Discriminated from Jews, 27, 30, 92, 164, 341 Expelled from Rome by Claudius, 25 Fanatics among, 97 Guerdon of the faith of, 154 _et seq._ Jewish opposition to, in Rome, 18 Life of, in early days, 33-7, 101 _et seq._, 78-81, 140 _et seq._ Numbers of, and of Martyrs (_q.v._), 28, 46 _n._ 1, 53, 215; witnesses to, 82 _& n._ 1, 101, 103-6 Schools of teaching among, two, 101 Christology of the Catacombs, 220; of S. Paul, 23-4 _Chronicles_, Book of, Haggadic expansion of, 378 Church calendars, Martyrs first mentioned in, 208 _Church, The, in the Empire_, _cited, see under_ Ramsay Church of the Propaganda, S. Hyacinthus’s remains in, 275 Church of Rome (_see also_ Rome, Christians in, _&c._), early importance of, 16, 17 Cicero, the first great letter-writer, epistolary style of, 67, 71; fashion set by, 56-7, 58, 64; period of, 56; popularity of, 69 on the Jews in Rome, 3; on Slaves, 134 Circumcision forbidden to Jews in Rome, 335 Civil service, Christians in, 144, 145, 148-9 Civil War, U.S.A., causes of, 135 _n._ 1 Claudian, poems of, 64 Claudius, Emperor, 235; expulsion by, of Jews, from Rome, 8, 18, 25; S. Peter at Rome during reign of, 11, 12, 14 Claudius Gothicus, Emperor, martyrs in reign of, 262, 276 Clement of Alexandria, 179; teaching of, 138; writings by, _see Pædagogus_; _cited_ in support of Petrine tradition, 10, 13; on Christians living in the world, 146; on Christians of wealth, 111 _& n._ 1 Clement VIII, Pope, and the finding of S. Cecilia’s body, 294, 297; and S. Peter’s tomb, 282 Clermont, Sidonius Apollinaris, bishop of, 66 Clitumnus fountain, Pliny’s description of, 60 “Clivium Cucumeris, ad,” Catacomb so called, 275 Codex Sinaiticus, _The Shepherd_ of Hermas included in, 179-80 Cœlian Hill, church on, Saints buried in, 249 “Cœmeterium Majus,” chief interest of, and other names of, 255, 257-8; subterranean church in, 258 Cœmeterium Ostrianum, 255, 257, 271 “Cognitiones,” the, 43, 50 Cologne, relics of S. Laurence at, 255 Colosseum, the, martyrdoms in, 172 Column of the Passion, at S. Zeno’s chapel, 263 _Commentaries_ on the Gospels, &c., by Theophilus of Antioch, 189 Commodilla, catacomb of, 236, 238 Commodus, Emperor, 333 _n._ 2; _Apology_ of Athenagoras addressed to, 188 Attitude of, to Christians, 97, 147, 164, 208 Communion of Saints, early Christian view on, 307 _et seq._ Communism and the early Church, 120 _& n._ 1, 130