Tom Izbicki wrote:
>The church of s. Clemente in Rome is built over a Mithraeum. Are there
>other such? I believe I saw a mention of one of the churches on the
>Aventine being similarly situated, but I have not been in rome for a
>decade.
>
Dear Tom
If I recall correctly, Duchesne, in a rather lengthly entry on St.
Anastasia ( the precisce bibliographic citation will follow when can again
lay my hands on my "archived" files) from his studies on the Roman
martyrologies, mentions that all but one of the original seven stational
churches in Rome were indeed built over 'pagan' ( It is only with caution
that I so brashly use this word in light our our ongoing list excursion
into the propriety of the term). religious sites/ shrines/altars.The
church of St Anastasia,( originally a Kyrial basilica to the Resurrection [
Anastasiou] ) later co-opted by the growing cult of St. Anastasia, he
argues, was also first a Mithraic shrine. The Church of Cosmas and Damian__
once an altar to the Phyrigian Magna Mater.S Pietro in Carcere,__ an altar
to Demeter. I will send the references within a few days.
Josef Gulka
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