APRONIANO, CIMITERO. — The Hieronymian Martyrology tells us (25 Dec.) that St. Eugenia was buried on the Via Latina in Rome in coemeterio Aproniani. And from the Notitia ecclesiarum we know that it was the third one when proceeding from Rome. A basilica stood above it, and Adrian I (772–75) built there a convent for women, which he richly endowed. The catacomb, visited several times in the past, came to light again in 1937 and was subsequently excavated in part. It has three levels, but is not very extensive; it has brought to light many inscriptions and several interesting cubicula, as well as a polychrome mosaic depicting the cycle of Jonah. A. must have been some wealthy Christian who owned that property.
BIBL.: A. Ferrua, Una nuova catacomba su la via Latina, in La Civ. Catt., 1938, II, pp. 151–63; E. Josi, Cimitero cristiano sulla via Latina, in Rivista d'Archeologia Cristiana, 17 (1940), pp. 7–39. Antonio Ferrua