Note 133 — PART II TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT DISCOVERIES

The text of the Liber Pontificalis mentions the Cemetery of Prætextatus as the site of the lost tomb. It was there where her husband Valerian and his brother and the officer Maximus had been buried. Duchesne, the learned editor of the Liber Pontificalis, suggests that the body of S. Cecilia had been removed from its original resting-place in the Crypt of S. Callistus, and had been secretly placed for safety’s sake in the Cemetery of Prætextatus. De Rossi, however, and later Marucchi, believe that the Cemetery of Prætextatus, through an error in the Liber Pontificalis, had been written for “Cemetery of Callistus.”