However the poor could not afford the elaborate sarcophagi. They could not afford to purchase and place their corpses in such expensive means as they were buried in simple wooden boxes. And it was under the hills of Rome that the catacombs were dug out for this purpose. Inside of the walls of the darkened tunnels, lit only by flickering flame holes were drilled into the stone, where the poor were buried. As the catacombs began to fill the poor met in secret. And the word of he who was borne of a virgin birth spread. And as the tunnels grew deeper and deeper the story of resurrection and everlasting life grew if they only followed he who was persecuted, and crucified, and rose on the third day. It would be through the change of Rome’s funerary
