The church in the catacombs : a description of the primitive church of Rome : illustrated by its sepulchral remains . Translate — The holy worshipper of God, Eutropus, in son made this. He died on the 10th Kalends of Sep-tember. (Fabretti). The assertion that a figure praying was intendedas a symbol of martyrdom, appears to rest upon nogood foundation. It is with regret that the authoris forced to object to so many suppositions con-nected with the saints and heroes of the Catacombs:the assertion that a martyr is only known byprayer * on the sepulchral tablets, is what everyChristian
The church in the catacombs : a description of the primitive church of Rome : illustrated by its sepulchral remains . Translate — The holy worshipper of God, Eutropus, in son made this. He died on the 10th Kalends of Sep-tember. (Fabretti). The assertion that a figure praying was intendedas a symbol of martyrdom, appears to rest upon nogood foundation. It is with regret that the authoris forced to object to so many suppositions con-nected with the saints and heroes of the Catacombs:the assertion that a martyr is only known byprayer * on the sepulchral tablets, is what everyChristian would be ready to believe, and hope to betrue. But the absence of all evidence leads us to rejectthe praying figure as a sign of martyrdom, and torefer it to the class of symbols expressive of someChristian sentiment. Moreover, these figures oftenoccur on handsome marble sarcophagi of the fourth * R. Rochette, Academie des Belles Lettres et dlnscriptions,torn. xiii. p. 169. 142 THE MARTYRS OF and fifth centuries, in which case they cannot beconsidered as indicative of martyrdom. The custom of depositing small
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