The restoration of a wall painting depicting an idealized Jerusalem is a reminder that the Roman monument, known best for gladiatorial combat, was a sacred Christian space for centuries.

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The Colosseum became a model for amphitheaters across the Roman Empire, according to Beard and Hopkins. Gladiator fights and animal hunts A gladiator fights a tiger in an arena.

A Colosseum in shambles. After its time as a viewing place for spectacles and bloodsports, the Roman Colosseum fell into disarray. The complex multi-tiered structure became sectioned into rental ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Baptist crusader for civil rights and social justice whose life was ended by an assassin’s bullet, is a candidate to be proclaimed a martyr for the Christ… ...

St. Blandine and Companions are observed as an optional memorial on the French liturgical calendar on June 2. When we think of the martyrs of antiquity, we imagine Rome, maybe the Colosseum.

So the Colosseum received a perimeter of 1,835 Roman feet (80x 23 =1840), and the arena was adjusted to 280 x 168 (still 5:3). Similar numerical patterns can be seen in the Colosseum's famous façade.

Archaeologists recreate lifts that carried up Roman lions into the Colosseum where they fought to the death with gladiators. "The number of lifts here was more than in any other Roman amphitheatre ...

Admittedly the Roman Martyrology doesn’t hold the same pride of place on most Catholics’ home bookshelves as other hagiographical tomes. More popular (read: “shorter”) books such as the ...