The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs: From Imperial Ante-Vestibule to Christian Room of Worship
The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs occupies a strategic symbolical position between the Forum Romanum and the Palatine complexes.Its interior decoration is dominated by representations of the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia, soldiers of the legendary Legio XII Fulminata.Would a cult to the Forty Martyrs, obviously prominent in the oratory, share any conno