A titulus was an early Christian place of worship, which was in some cases, a home donated by a wealthy Christian. As time went by and the church itself became wealthy, congregations larger and the liturgy changed, churches as we know them were built above the tituli. I asked the sacristan if I could see the titulus. He asked me to tell him when I was leaving, so he could turn off the lights! If only these types of areas could have the same technology applied as is applied to the Roman domus underneath the Palazzo Valentini! (Google Palazzo Valentini; their website is great.) Nothing of the reconstruction would then be left to the visitor's imagination.
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