"AMANTO FILIO DVLCISSIMO
QVI VIXIT ANNIS DVOBVS. ET. D. X.V.
N PACE."[1]
N the classic Appian way, The Roman street of tombs, Stands a lone Church, beneath whose floor Thread the drear catacombs; In dismal labyrinth they wind, These footpaths of the dead, Whereto in early Christian times, The persecuted fled.
↑An inscription in the Catacombs of St. Agnese, on the slab of a child's grave; a martyr of two years old.