Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Cat" to "Celt"

part in the services at the same time. Although the idea of the use of

the catacombs for religious worship may have been pressed too far, there can be no doubt that the sacred rites of the church were celebrated within them. We have already spoken of the eucharistic celebrations of which the _cubicula_ were the scene; and still existing baptisteries prove that the other sacrament wa...