On the Kalends of March in A.D. 213, Roman Nemausus, modern Nîmes, glitters under a cloudless sky. There a Christian girl, Perpetua, and the deacon Baudillas live under the threat of the pagan festival and its sacrifices, and among the boatmen of the lagoons and the worshippers of the town she must find a passage into life.
A vivid early-Christian romance set among the Roman ruins of Provence by a prolific Victorian clergyman. Download the free EPUB.