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The _festa_ of San Sebastiano fell on a Sunday.
The ancient church a mile and a half outside Rome on the Appian Way -- the road constructed three hundred years before the birth of Christ -- was thronged by the populace in _festa_ attire, for San Sebastiano, built as it is over the Catacombs where reposed the remains of the Christian martyrs, is one of the seven churches to which pilgrims have flocked from every part of western Christendom, while in its chapel is the marble slab bearing what is held by tradition to be the footprints of Christ, and which, therefore, is held by the Romans in special veneration.