Mortuary Rituals Tag

The Good Shepherd with Jonah in repose (on the right), Chamber II of the Coemeterium Maius, Rome. Photo by Joseph Wilpert, Die Malereien der Katakomben Roms, 1903. Tf. 171. Public Domain. Courtesy of Heidelberg historic literature – digitized. https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1339

Christianity Funerary Practices Roman Period

A Minor Biblical Prophet Lives Again—Among the Dead

March 2024 | Vol. 12.3 By Amy Erickson In the catacombs beneath the city of Rome, where the dead were interred, honored, and visited, Jonah is strikingly alive. On the walls, the c