Description

The noble Priscilla must have been the founder of the cemetery, or the donor of the area in which it was built. Priscilla, as evidenced by an inscription of the catacomb, was related to the noble gens Acilia. Among the martyrs buried in Priscilla we remember the brothers Felice and Filippo, who were martyred, probably under Diocletian, but also numerous popes. In the upper floor are located the most important nucleuses of the catacomb. The cubicle of the Velata is decorated with paintings from the second half of the third century. ; the niche of the Madonna with the Child and the prophet Balaam, represents the oldest image of the Mother of God in the West (230-240); the cryptoporticus with the Greek Chapel, which owes its importance to the pictorial cycles of great antiquity that decorate it (second half III century).