Dear Iain,

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintd10.htm
> The illustrations show Jerome surrounded with angels
> and texts while St
> Damasus has a few cherubs and an angle holding a
> large (blue on white?)
> ceramic jar.
Sorry, but isn´t it a tiara (?) - I mean, he was a
Pope.

Apparently neither could stand Arianism
> (a form of
> post-processualism?).
;-))

More information:

http://saints.catholic.org/saints/damasus.html

http://www.newadvent.org/Popes/ppda01.htm
"Historians and archeologists as
well as lovers of Holy Writ owe much to this
intelligent and pious pope."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04613a.htm

In German:
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/d/damasus_i_p.shtml
with a lot of references

http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienD/DamasusI.htm
He also helps against fever - find- or discoveryfever
? ;-).

http://www.erzabtei-beuron.de/schott/proprium/Dezember11.htm

So lets ask him for help, if the excavator is near.
;-))

Viele Gruesse aus Bamberg, Germany
Roman

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