St Paul’s Catacombs
Early Christian and Roman underground cemetery with round agape tables carved from the living rock.
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This guide to St Paul's Catacombs in Rabat, Malta, turns on the round stone tables carved into the rock at the foot of the entrance stairs, and on the Roman families who came down here to eat beside their graves. It follows the funeral meal called the refrigerium, the early Christian love feast that grew out of it, and the clay lamps that lit both. Best heard standing beside the table in the first hall.
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