He
who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to
the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal
chains of death, and after three days’ darkness could bring again
to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe,
will make Damasus rise again from the dust.
– Pope
Saint Damasus I from
an epitaph he wrote for himself.
Pope
Saint Damasus I’s patronage:
Archaeologists
