A group of friends and I trekked to the catacombs this morning.
There are many, many catacombs in Rome. We went to the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, a huge tomb most notable for containing the Capella dei Papi (Crypt of the Popes).
We couldn't take pictures inside, but it was basically a giant tomb with tunnel after tunnel and turn after turn whose walls were covered in rectangular holes once occupied by the bodies of Christians. Some of the rectangles were very small, which we were told meant they held the bodies of infants or children. It's haunting enough to see people's former graves; it's much more chilling when you know they belonged to children. None of the bodies/bones are there anymore; most have been moved elsewhere over time. Still, it was interesting to see - and fortunate that we had a guide, because the catacombs are huge.
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