Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XII, 1954 Christian archaeology Places

Timavus

TIMAVO

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TIMAVUS. — The mouths of the river, which after 40 km. of underground course gushes out from the rock onto the sea, were the site of a very ancient cult that myth traces back to Diomedes, an exile from Troy.

Its purifying waters marked the boundary between the Veneti and the Istri (and, until Caesar, the boundary of Italy); they had a Roman sanctuary and were celebrated by Virgil. In the Christian era the cult was continued in the place, and St. John the Baptist was venerated there; recent excavations have uncovered a tripartite basilica of the 5th century, rebuilt in the 11th and again at the end of the 15th as an elegant building of ogival forms, recently restored, which attests to the persistent continuity of the place of prayer.

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BIBL.: R. Pichler, Il castello di Duino, Trento 1882; B. Forlati-Tamaro, in Notizie degli scavi, 1925, p. 1 ff.

Mario Mirabella Roberti

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), col. 100.

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Mirabella, Roberti Mario. “Timavo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 100. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/timavo.

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Mirabella, Roberti Mario. “Timavo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 100. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/timavo.

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@incollection{ec12_timavo,
  author    = {Mirabella, Roberti Mario},
  title     = {Timavo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XII},
  pages     = {100},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1954},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/timavo}
}

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