 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...formed into a regular procession, and each bareheaded, carrying a lighted taper in his hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the .solid rock, consisting of...at the top ; its sides neatly plastered and stained «it ha black wash ; the flooring laid with iron plates about a fotit vijuare. The remains of seventythree... | |
 | John Thomas James - 1817 - 474 pages
...formed into a regular procession, and each bare-headed, carrying a lighted taper in his hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of...primitive Christians of Russia, the objects of veneration, were deposited in semicircular niches that occurred at intervals on the passage. The bodies were wrapped... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...taper in his hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of walks, chambers, brandies, &c., ascending and descending for the distance of...wash ; the flooring laid with iron plates about a loot square. The remain* of seventythree saints, or primitive Christians of Russia, the objects of... | |
 | 1818 - 798 pages
...formed into a regular procession, and each bareheaded, carrying a lighted taper in his hand. Jt was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of...passage about six feet wide, and coved at the top j its sides neatly plastered and stained with a black wash ; the flooring laid with iron plates about... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1819 - 482 pages
...being formed into a regular procession, and each bare-headed, carrying a lighted taper in hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of...primitive Christians of Russia, the objects of veneration, were deposited in semicircular niches that occurred at intervals on the passage. The bodies were wrapped... | |
 | John Thomas James - 1819 - 484 pages
...formed into a regular procession, and each bare-headed, carrying a lighted taper in his hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of...primitive Christians of Russia, the objects of veneration, were deposited in semicircular niches that occurred at. intervals on the passage. The bodies were wrapped... | |
 | William Bingley - 1822 - 384 pages
...a regular procession, and each, bareheaded, carried in his hand a lighted taper. The catacombs are a labyrinth, mined in the solid rock, consisting of...the distance of several hundred yards. The passage is about six feet wide, and covered at the top; its sides neatly plastered, and stained with a black... | |
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... by our guide arriving to inform us the priest was waiting to conduct us to the relics. We descended a long staircase en ramp, to the mouth of the sacred catacomb, being formed into a regular procession, and each bare-headed, carrying a lighted taper... 