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Identifier: monumentsofearly00lowr (find matches)
Title: Monuments of the early church
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959
Subjects: Christian antiquities Christian art and symbolism Church architecture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, MacMillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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those which call upon all who read theinscription to pray for the person whom it commemorates.Such forms are found with comparative frequency after themiddle of the second century. To another class belong the appeals for the intercession ofthe martyrs. It was hardly before the fourth century that the i IXSCBIPTIOXS 71 martyrs were regarded as advocates before God for the souls ofthe departed. For this period, however, the popularity of theview is proved, not only by inscriptions, but by some of thepaintings of the catacombs which represent the soul introducedinto heaven by the saints, and the same theme appears later inthe mosaics of the basilicas. It is in this cult of the martyrs wefind the roots of the later doctrine of the saints; in the offi-cial recognition of martyrdom, and in the special efficacy whichwas attributed to the martyrs intercession, we have the essen-tial factors of the mediaeval doctrine. It was this conceptionof the martyrs as advocates in the Judgment which made
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