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better known saints, the "Itinerary" says: "Many others sleep there."—De Locis SS. Martyrum.

(leads in a northerly direction out of the old Porta Collina (Porta Pia now). The great Cemetery (Catacomb) of Priscilla is a little way out of the city on this road). The "Itinerary" is speaking of the old Basilica of S. Sylvester; its ruins are in the Priscilla Catacomb. There, it says, "a multitude of saints rest"; and further on, still speaking of the same Basilica of S. Sylvester, says that "under the altar with certain famous confessors there are a multitude of saints."—Itinerary of Salzburg.

Another "Guide," writing of the great ones who rest in the "Priscilla" Cemetery, adds how they sleep there "with many saints." Hard by, the same "Guide" tells us how one of the confessor-sons of S. Felicitas in the same spot rests "with many saints"; and again alludes to "the many martyrs buried there." And once more, speaking of the shrine of S. Sylvester, relates that "very many more saints and martyrs lie hard by." In one grave, the "Guide" adds, "373 are buried."—De Locis SS. Martyrum.

William of Malmesbury, copying—as we said—from a much older "Pilgrim Guide," after enumerating the names of the more prominent martyrs, adds, "and there are innumerable other saints buried there" (alii innumerabiles).—William of Malmesbury.

(This road was in the immediate neighbourhood of the last mentioned, the "Via Salaria Nova.")  The "Itinerary," describing the group of cemeteries on this road, writes, after mentioning the better known names of saints: "These are buried with many martyrs"; and further on relates how "230 martyrs are interred here."—De Locis SS. Martyrum.

William of Malmesbury, writing of the same group, relates that "in the one grave 260 martyrs rest," and "in another 30."—William of Malmesbury, Itinerary.