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    1. Via Appia Antica (Rome) – Via Appia Antica loop from Santa Maria delle Mole

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    April 25, 2023

    The first bishop of Rome whose burial place can be documented is that of Zephyrinus (198-217) in the burial zone above the catacomb of Calixtus I. Urban I. (222-235) was, according to the entry in the Liber Pontificalis, in the catacomb The following popes were buried in the "crypt of the popes" rediscovered by de Rossi in 1854: Pontianus (230-235), Anterus (235-236), Fabianus (236-250), Lucius I (253-254 ), Stephen I (254–257), Dionysius (260–267), Felix I (269–274), and Eutychianus (274–282)

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      November 23, 2021

      The Calixtus catacomb was created in the 2nd century. It was the first Christian community catacomb and is named after the bishop of Rome Calixtus I († 222).

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