Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs
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99
1885
English
- 00 - Preface
- 01 - The Christian House
- 02 - The Martyr's Boy
- 03 - The Dedication
- 04 - The Heathen Household
- 05 - The Visit
- 06 - The Banquet
- 07 - Poor and Rich
- 08 - The First Day's Conclusion
- 09 - Meetings
- 10 - Other Meetings
- 11 - A Talk With the Reader
- 12 - The Wolf and the Fox
- 13 - Charity
- 14 - Extremes Meet
- 15 - Charity Returns
- 16 - The Month of October
- 17 - The Christian Community
- 18 - Temptation
- 19 - The Fall
- 20 - Diogenes
- 21 - The Cemeteries
- 22 - What Diogenes Could Not Tell About the Catacombs
- 23 - What Diogenes Did Tell About the Catacombs
- 24 - Above Ground
- 25 - Deliberations
- 26 - Dark Death
- 27 - Darker Still
- 28 - The False Brother
- 29 - The Ordination in December
- 30 - The Virgins
- 31 - The Nomentan Villa
- 32 - The Edict
- 33 - The Discovery
- 34 - Explanation
- 35 - The Wolf in the Fold
- 36 - The First Flower
- 37 - Retribution
- 38 - Twofold Revenge
- 39 - The Public Works
- 40 - The Prison
- 41 - The Viaticum
- 42 - The Fight
- 43 - The Christian Soldier
- 44 - The Rescue
- 45 - The Revival
- 46 - The Second Crown
- 47 - The Critical Day: Its First Part
- 48 - The Same Day: Its Second Part
- 49 - The Same Day: Its Third Part
- 50 - Dionysius: Priest and Physician
- 51 - The Sacrifice Accepted
- 52 - Miriam's History
- 53 - Bright Death
- 54 - The Stranger From the East
- 55 - The Stranger From Rome
- 56 - And Last
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian.
The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. Fabiola seems to have everything, including a superior education in the philosophers, yet under the surface, she is not content with her life. One day, in a fit of rage, she attacks and wounds her slave girl Syra, who is a secret Christian. The proud, spoiled Roman girl is humbled by Syra's humility, maturity and devotion to her in this situation, and a slow transformation begins.
Woven into this fictitious story are a number of martyrdom accounts of real-life Christian saints, including Saint Agnes, Saint Tarcisius and Saint Sebastian.
Cardinal Wiseman wrote Fabiola in part as an answer to the vigorously anti-Catholic book Hypatia by Charles Kingsley. The novel was mainly aimed at the embattled Catholic minority in England, who had recently emerged from a half-illegal status. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)
The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. Fabiola seems to have everything, including a superior education in the philosophers, yet under the surface, she is not content with her life. One day, in a fit of rage, she attacks and wounds her slave girl Syra, who is a secret Christian. The proud, spoiled Roman girl is humbled by Syra's humility, maturity and devotion to her in this situation, and a slow transformation begins.
Woven into this fictitious story are a number of martyrdom accounts of real-life Christian saints, including Saint Agnes, Saint Tarcisius and Saint Sebastian.
Cardinal Wiseman wrote Fabiola in part as an answer to the vigorously anti-Catholic book Hypatia by Charles Kingsley. The novel was mainly aimed at the embattled Catholic minority in England, who had recently emerged from a half-illegal status. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)
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