The Argosy — page 65: what you’re looking at

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52 * Ecco Roma!” Alexandria, the Castor and Pollux, and landed at Syracuse ; tarried there three days, went on to Rhegium, thence to Puteoli, and so on to Rome. We know how Julius, the centurion, ‘‘ courteously entreated Paul,” and we love him for it ; and we wonder how he fared in the hands of the Captain of the Roman Guard. Well, we suppose, as he “was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.” And finally we know that Paul dwelt here two whole years in his own hired house, “‘ and received all that came in unto him.” Then, later, came his martyrdom. He had once entered Rome by the Appian Way, and once more and for the last time he trod it on his way to death. He was beheaded outside the Ostian Gate, at a place now called the Tre Fontane. It is said that Peter and uli, {| Sain © seme res = | aN z\ ut ne i ON THE APPIAN WAY, Paul both suffered martyrdom on the same day—the 29th of June: the one beheaded by the sword, the other, as we know, crucified with his head downwards. The place where they are supposed to have separated is now marked by a small chapel. We can imagine their farewell ; parting so soon to meet again; full of hope and triumph, having fought the fight and run the race. Then St. Paul went onward down the straight road, and here, the legend says, he met Plautilla, the Roman matron. She, overcome with sorrow, besought him to bless her. Paul then asked her for her veil to blind his eyes at the moment of execution, promising to return it to her after death. And it is recorded that he appeared to her after he had been beheaded, and restored the veil stained with blood. A magnificent monastery once existed at the Tre Fontane, but now nothing is to be seen except three small churches and a few ruins. CORNICLOOKS»COM