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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rius I.4 The Via Salaria leads to the Sabine territory. Within the J,precincts of Rome this road contained an Oratory of St. Felicitas,above her tomb in the cemetery of Maximus. It was erected byBoniface I. and restored by Symmachus.5 There was also aBasilica of Saturninus above the cemetery of Thrason.6 Theexistence of the great Catacombs of Priscilla on this same roadwas made known to visitors by a basilica erected by PopeSilvester and restored probably by John I. Its remarkable 1 Liber pont., Silvester, No. 43. 2 Liberpont., Xystus III. The designation maior, which the itineraries of the seventhcentury give to this basilica, appears upon two inscriptions of the fifth. De Rossi,Bullett. archeol. crist., 1876, p. 22 flf. In one of these it says: IN BASILICA MAIOREAD DOMNV LAVRENTIVM. Domnus is used instead of sanctus. 3 Liber pont., Felix III., No. 73 ; Simpiiciics, No. 72. 4 Ibid., Silvester, No. 42 ; Honorius, No. 119. 5 Ibid., Bonifatius I., No. 60. 6 \K\&., Felix IV., No. 90.
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oH H W o r/5 no. i45) EXTRA-MURAL CHURCHES 203 remains have only quite recently been temporarily brought tolight.1 Finally, the Via Flaminia is the last great road to which ourramble round the town brings us. It crossed the Tiber at theMilvian Bridge, and went north, passing by Prima Porta and theSoracte. As it generally skirts the Tiber, it served to link Romewith the North Italian provinces. About midway between theFlaminian Gate and the Milvian Bridge stood the largest churchadjoining this road anywhere in the neighbourhood of Rome.This was the Basilica of St. Valentine, founded by Julius I.It stood immediately in front of his cemetery among the steepcrags of the Parioli. The foundations and some remains oftombs and columns of this basilica were brought to light quitelately (in 1888).2 The surprisingly vast proportions of the triple-aisled church demonstrate afresh how the traditions of earlierRoman architecture — delighting in spacious, imposing, anddignified building

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