Still amongst all this trouble she had one great comfort.

Under the mild rule of Vespasian, although their meeting-places were known, the Christians had peace for a while.

Therefore, in company with Julia and many others of the brotherhood, she was able to visit the catacombs on the Appian Way by night, and there in those dismal, endless tombs to offer prayer and receive the ministrations of the Church.

The great Apostles, St.Peter and St.Paul, had suffered martyrdom, indeed, but they had left many teachers behind them, and the chief of these soon grew to know and love the poor Jewish captive who was doomed to slavery.
Therefore here also she found friends and consolation of spirit.
In time Gallus came to learn that his wife was also of the Faith, and for a while this knowledge seemed to cast him down.

In the end, however, he shrugged his shoulders and said that she was certainly of an age to judge for herself and that he trusted no harm might come of it.