times past, so there is the same grace no less mighty now, and if we do not close ourselves against it, it might in us be no less glorified in a time of trial. And that such times of trial will come, my children, in your times, if not in mine, I do believe fully, both from the teaching of man's wisdom and of God's. And therefore pictures of martyrdom are, I think, very wholesome--not to be sneered at, nor yet to be looked on as a mere excitement,--but as a sober reminder to us of what Satan can do to hurt, and what God's grace can enable the weakest of His people to bear. Neither should we forget those who, by their sufferings, were more than conquerors, not for themselves only, but for us, in securing to us the safe and triumphant existence of Christ's blessed faith--in securing to us the possibility, nay, the actual enjoyment, had it not been for the Antichrist of the priesthood--of Christ's holy and glorious ἑκκλησια, the congregation and commonwealth of Christ's people."--_Arnold's Letters._ "On croit que l'église de Saint-Etienne-le-Rond est bâtie sur l'emplacement du _Macellum Augusti_. S'il en est ainsi, les supplices des martyrs, hideusement représentés sur les murs de cette église, rappellent ce qu'elle a remplacé."--_Ampère, Emp._ i. 270. The first chapel on the left, dedicated to SS. Primus and Felicianus, contains some delicate small mosaics. "The mosaics of the small altar of S. Stefano Rotondo, are of A.D. 642--649. A brilliantly-decorated cross is represented between two standing figures of St. Primus and St. Felicianus. On the upper end of the cross (very tastefully introduced) appears a small head of Christ with a nimbus, over which the hand of the Father is extended in benediction."--_Kugler._ In the next chapel is a very beautiful tomb of Bernardino Capella, Canon of St. Peter's, who died 1524. In a small house, which formerly stood among the gardens in this neighbourhood, Palestrina lived and wrote.