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A comprehensive and important guide to the individual churches catacombs embellishments and artifacts of early christian rome this book covers a period from the first century visits of the apostles peter and paul to the end of the ninth century carolingian renaissance. The early roman churches were dominated and led by jewish disciples of jesus when claudius expelled all jews from the city of rome however only the gentile christians remained therefore the church grew and expanded as a largely gentile community from 49 to 54 ad. Pdf download the churches and catacombs of early christian rome a comprehensive guide download online. The exploration and scientific study of the catacombs started centuries later with antonio bosio 1575 1629 nicknamed the columbus of subterranean rome in the last century the systematic exploration of the catacombs and in particular of those of saint callixtus was carried out by giovanni battista de rossi 1822 1894 who