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      Religions and Conquests Between East and West
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      ByHollingsworth
      BookArt in World History 2 Vols

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2004
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 52
      eBook ISBN 9781315706320
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      ABSTRACT

      The first Christians were working-class. They worshiped in private houses around a communal meal, which began with the breaking of bread and ended with a blessing over wine, supervised by professional clergy. There were few official buildings and little Christian art. Contrary to popular belief, catacombs were not places of secret worship but burial chambers with space designated for funeral services. Christians objected to cremation, but most were too poor to buy land for their tombs, as wealthy Romans did, so they dug underground passages for communal burial. Modest, simple, and explicitly Christian, their

      decorative art emphasized salvation through belief.

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