Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . t. Worn out and utterly changed,he returned many years afterwards to be near those who were dearto him, and remained, unrecognised, as a poor beggar, under thestairs which led to his fathers house. Seventeen years passedaway, when a mysterious voice suddenly resounded through theRoman churches, crying, Seek ye out the man of God, that hemay pray for Rome. The crowd was stricken with amazement,when the same voice continued, Seek in the house of Euphemi-anus. Then the Pope, emperor, and senators hastened together tothe Aventine, where they
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . t. Worn out and utterly changed,he returned many years afterwards to be near those who were dearto him, and remained, unrecognised, as a poor beggar, under thestairs which led to his fathers house. Seventeen years passedaway, when a mysterious voice suddenly resounded through theRoman churches, crying, Seek ye out the man of God, that hemay pray for Rome. The crowd was stricken with amazement,when the same voice continued, Seek in the house of Euphemi-anus. Then the Pope, emperor, and senators hastened together tothe Aventine, where they found the despised beggar dying beneaththe doorstep, his countenance beaming with celestial light, acrucifix in one hand and a sealed paper in the other. The peoplevainly strove to draw the paper from the fingers which were closingin the gripe of death; but when Innocent I. bade the dying man Heuiaus, Monuments in Home. » Addresscil by S. Jerome iu one of his letters the pride of BomanB. Shewas tortured, and her Aventine house pillag^ed by the 4 Walks in Borne 255 in Gods name to give it up, they opened. Then the Pope readaloud to the astonished multitude the secret of Alexis, and hisfather Euphemianus, and his widowed bride regained in death theson and the husband they had lost. Then, lest some secular use might mar the placeM;ide sacred by his pain, upon the groundWhere stood that stately house they reared the IhurchOf S. Alexis, and the marlile stairsWhich sheltered him they left as when he there a sculptor carved him, in mean garb,Reclining, by his side his pilgrims in his hand the story of his virgin pnreness and humility.—Lewis Morris. S. Alessio is entered through a courtyard. The courtyards in front of S. Alessio, S. Cecilia, 8. Gregorio, and otherchurches, are like the vestihula of the ancient Roman houses, on the site ofwhich they were probably built. This style of buildini-, says Tacitus, wasgenerally introduced by Nero. Beyond
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