Ravenna: Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe (2)

 

 

The central nave of the church

The left nave of the church

The right nave of the church

 

 

The large mosaic in the apse shows Saint Apollinare standing below a huge cross

 

 

A sarcophagus for a child named Licinia.

The Latin inscription reads as follows:

 

B(onae) M(emoriae).

LICINIAE VALERIAE

FAUSTINAE ITALICAE

DORMIENTI IN PACE

QUAE VIXIT ANNO UNO

MENSES VI DIES VI

FILIAE DULCISSIMAE

PARENTES CONTRA VOTUM

In English:

 

"To the good memory. The parents [erected this monument] for their sweetest daughter Licinia Valeria Faustina Italica, who lived for one year, six months and six days, and who now sleeps in peace. [She died] against our wish."

 



 

A sarcohagus on display in the church.



 



A sarcophagus for a bishop named Iohannes

 

 

The first part of the Latin inscription reads:

 

HIC TUMU- // LUS CLAUSUM // SERVAT COR- // PUS Domini Nostri

 

 

The second part of the Latin inscription reads:

 

IOHANNIS // SCISSIMI // AC TER BE- // ATISS ARCHIP

 

In English:

 

"This monument conserves the buried body of Our Lord Iohannes,

a most holy person, and three times the most blessed archbishop."

  

 

The central nave of the church seen from the apse.

 

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For more information about this church, see

Ravenna: Art and History by Giuseppe Bovini

(1991, revised edition 2008)

 

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