. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . e Grabschrift des Aberkios (Zeitschriftfiir kath. Theologie, 21 (1897), 673 ff.), Cp. H. LECLERCQ in CABROL, DicLrf etde Liturgie, 1, col. 64-87. no. i97] THE ROMAN PRIMACY 319 me the Fish fresh from the spring, the Powerful, the Pure, whichthe immaculate Virgin had taken. Everywhere it gave it to itsfriends for food, fetching forth true wine, which it offered mixedwith water, and likewise Several expressions in this epitaph sound almost like an echofrom the Roman catacombs ; they correspond to figurative repre-se
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . e Grabschrift des Aberkios (Zeitschriftfiir kath. Theologie, 21 (1897), 673 ff.), Cp. H. LECLERCQ in CABROL, DicLrf etde Liturgie, 1, col. 64-87. no. i97] THE ROMAN PRIMACY 319 me the Fish fresh from the spring, the Powerful, the Pure, whichthe immaculate Virgin had taken. Everywhere it gave it to itsfriends for food, fetching forth true wine, which it offered mixedwith water, and likewise Several expressions in this epitaph sound almost like an echofrom the Roman catacombs ; they correspond to figurative repre-sentations which Abercius had evidently seen in the places ofworship of his glorified queen. Some of these have in fact beenrightly assigned by archaeology to the date of Aberciuss journeyto Rome. In the crypt of Lucina, in the Catacomb of Callistus, we findtwice portrayed the eucharistic fish, depicting symbolically theDivine Fish eaten by believers, and in front of it—that no doubtof its meaning may remain for the initiated—the species of bread. 111. 75.—Painting newly discovered in the Catacomb of St. Priscilla,depicting the breaking of bread. and wine. In the so-called Greek chapel of the Catacomb ofPriscilla there is the celebrated scene of the eucharistic meal,where the head of the community and six other persons appearat a table. He is breaking the bread, while the chalice and fisheslie before him, and the mystic seven baskets of bread standaround ; the whole being on a newly discovered picture from theearlier part of the second century (111. 75).2 Then there are theother memorials on early Christian epitaphs, which display thefive loaves and two fishes of the Gospel miracle, in allusion to theEucharist as a pledge of the Resurrection (111. y6).z Further,there is the picture—so often introduced on Christian tombs— 1 The passage of the inscription relating to Rome is as follows (ed. DE SANCTIS,p. 674) : ets ~P j3a<n\[T] avadprjo-ai] Kal /3aal\iss [av idetv xPV(
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