Katakomben St. Peter

This guide to the Katakomben St. Peter in Salzburg opens with a five-line inscription carved into the rock, claiming that in 477 a bishop named Maximus and fifty followers leapt to their deaths here rather than be caught by invaders. It traces the hollow itself back further, to an ancient lake that shaped this cliff long before any monk arrived, and to the quiet hermitage the caves became before two chapels were consecrated inside them in 1178. Along the way it questions how reliable that grim inscription really is.