Note 102 — Chapter IV · WHAT DIOGENES DID TELL ABOUT THE CATACOMBS.
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“Sic venerarier ossa libet, Ossibus altar et impositum; Illa Dei sita sub pedibus, Prospicit hæc, populosque suos Carmine propitiata fovet.” Prudentius, περι στε iii. 43.
“With her relics gathered here, The altar o’er them placed revere, She beneath God’s feet reposes, Nor to us her soft eye closes, Nor her gracious ear.”
The idea that the martyr lies “beneath the feet of God” is an allusion to the Real Presence in the Blessed Eucharist.