The novel was mainly aimed at the embattled Catholic minority in England, who had recently emerged from a half-illegal status. Cardinal Wiseman has explored the catacombs intricately and has connected various. Woven into this fictitious story are a number of martyrdom accounts of real-life Christian saints, including Saint Agnes, Saint Tarcisius and Saint Sebastian.Ĭardinal Wiseman wrote Fabiola in part as an answer to the vigorously anti-Catholic book Hypatia by Charles Kingsley. It was the time of the worst persecutions that the early Church faced. The proud, spoiled Roman girl is humbled by Syra's humility, maturity and devotion to her in this situation, and a slow transformation begins. One day, in a fit of rage, she attacks and wounds her slave girl Syra, who is a secret Christian. Fabiola seems to have everything, including a superior education in the philosophers, yet under the surface, she is not content with her life. Chuck Greif, Veronica Brandt, Karina Aleksandrova and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //(This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert Fabiola or The Church of the CatacombsĬardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1802 - 1865)
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