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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHURCHES OF THE STATIONS. S. Alessio and S. Sabina. Most impressive is the solitude and desolation amid which stand on the Aventine Mount, once the most populous region of Rome, the Monasteries and Churches of S. Alessio and S. Sabina, the latter, with its high turreted walls, like a fortress dominent on the height. Within a few minutes' walk from the Capitol, this region seems now to be under a sentence of desolation; here are no dwellings but a few forlorn cottages, no signs of cultivation but some neglected looking vineyard or garden; and long lanes winding between delapidated walls are the only thoroughfares. Religion alone seems to raise her head; and her sanctuaries to remain standing in pristine majesty amid the blight of nature and the decay of Empire around. S. Alessio was founded A. D. 305 by St. Aglae, a Roman matron, on the ruins of a Temple of Hercules, and was dedicated first to her own servant, Bonifacius, who was martyred in Cilicia. The pious matron had sent him into that country to procure relics from the proconsul Simplicius, whose cupidity had led him to convert into articles of merchandise the revered remains of the martyrs. Bomfacius, half jestingly asked his mistress, before his departure:--If instead of my bringing back the body of a Martyr, my own should be brought to you, would you receive it with honour? To which Aglae repied with grave reproof; but such was actually the event: Bomfacius was put to death for his faith at Tarsus: his companions brought back his body to Rome; and Aglae, warned (according to the tradition) by a celestial vision, received it with devout honours into the recently completed Church, where it was interred under the high altar. Near this sanctuary was the palace of Euphemius, a wealthy Senator, in the fourth ce...
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