Article: LEARNING ABOUT FAITH AND LIFE IN THE CATACOMBS OF ROME

Estelle Shohet Brettman, executive director of the Boston-based International Catacomb Society, has spent the past decade bringing the underground art of Rome to light.

"Vaults of Memory: Jewish and Christian Imagery in the Catacombs of Rome," which opens a month-long stay at the Boston Public Library Sept. 15 (preceded by a fund-raising banquet on the 14th, at which the guest of honor will be Dr. Walter Persegati, secretary general of the Vatican Museums) is an extraordinary documentation of the subterranean treasures of the ancient world. Photographing for weeks at a time in the tortuous passageways of Christian and Jewish catacombs, Brettman endured taxing conditions. The humidity ...

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