In early fourth-century Rome, the wealthy pagan Fabiola lives amid luxury and philosophy while Christians around her, among them her slave Syra, the young Agnes, the soldier Sebastian and the boy Pancratius, worship in secret beneath the city. As persecution hardens under Diocletian, Wiseman draws on his knowledge of the catacombs to picture daily life on both sides.
A Victorian Catholic novel by Cardinal Wiseman, still read for its picture of the early Church and its martyrs. Download the free EPUB.