El declive de las catacumbas como lugar de enterramiento se fecha en torno a la segunda mitad del siglo VI. Aunque su función original caducó, no fueron abandonadas. La razón fue el florecimiento del culto a los santos y el interés por sus reliquias, lo que llevó al desarrollo de estos cementerios en una dirección que pretendía satisfacer la demanda de los peregrinos.The decline of the catacombs as burial places is dated around the second half of the 6th century. But even though the original function for which they were created was over, they were not abandoned. The reason was the blossom of the cult of the saints and the interest of their relics, so those cemeteries were forced to develop in a different direction in order to satisfy the demand of the pilgrims: that was their way to survive
