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Catacomba dei Santi Marco e Marcelliano

Historic site · Ardeatino, Italy

A funerary area of the callistian complex, between via Appia Antica and via Ardeatina. It was anciently the cimitero di Basileo ad sanctum Marcum et Marcellianum, named first for the landowner and then for the martyrs. A second above-ground basilica held the tomb Pope Damasus chose for himself, his mother Lorenza and his sister Irene; nothing of the above-ground structures survives. No visiting arrangements are stated for it, so none are given here.

History

Antonio Bosio explored the cemetery in 1596 and his account was published posthumously in Roma sotterranea in 1632. Giovan Battista de Rossi re-explored it in 1868. Joseph Wilpert identified it in systematic digs of 1902 to 1905 beneath the courtyard of the Istituto San Tarcisio on via Appia Antica, finding apsed structures and the cripta delle quattro colonne. Antonio Ferrua dug further in 1947, and Mons. Patrick Saint-Roch studied the topography.

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