In third-century Sicca, a town in Roman North Africa, the young Christian Agellius lives quietly among pagan neighbours, while his uncle Jucundus sells idols and his brother Juba scorns every faith. Callista, a gifted Greek girl who shapes images for the temples, begins to question her gods just as plague, locusts and an imperial edict turn the mob against the Christians.
Newman’s only historical novel, an imaginative study of conversion written from a Catholic point of view in 1855. Download the free EPUB.