CROSTAROSA, PIETRO. — Born on 25 Feb. 1836 in Rome, died there on 26 Feb. 1902, he was a canon of Santa Maria Maggiore, prefect of the Christian Museum of the Vatican Library, and secretary of the Commission for Sacred Archaeology for several years, during which he promoted important works in the Roman catacombs, such as the arrangement of the basilica of SS. Nereus and Achilleus on the Via Ardeatina and the excavation of the historical crypt of
CROSTAROSA, PIETRO — Portrait.