Fabiola

or, The Church of the Catacombs

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501671577
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Rome under Diocletian, a Christian girl in a patrician household, and the catacombs where the persecuted meet. Wiseman was the first Catholic cardinal in England since the Reformation and wrote the novel to show English readers what the early church had actually been; it was translated into a dozen languages. Sixty plates of Roman processions, ruins and prisons by Mantegna and Piranesi give the persecutions and triumphs of the early church their proper setting.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Fabiola
• Preface to the Illustrated Edition.
• Preface.
• Chapter I. The Christian House.
• Chapter II. The Martyr’s Boy.
• Chapter III. The Dedication.
• Chapter IV. The Heathen Household.
• Chapter V. The Visit.
• Chapter VI. The Banquet.
• Chapter VII. Poor and Rich.
• Chapter VIII. The First Day’s Conclusion.
• Chapter IX. Meetings.
• Chapter X. Other Meetings.
• Chapter XI. A Talk with the Reader.
• Chapter XII. The Wolf and the Fox.
• Chapter XIII. Charity.
• Chapter XIV. Extremes Meet.
• Chapter XV. Charity Returns.
• Chapter XVI. The Month of October.
• Chapter XVII. The Christian Community.
• Chapter XVIII. Temptation.
• Chapter XIX. The Fall.
• Chapter I. Diogenes.
• De Bianoba Pollecla Qve Ordev Bendet De Bianoba
• Cvcvmio Et Victoria Se Vivos Fecervnt Capsararivs De Antoninianas.
• Chapter II. The Cemeteries.
• Chapter III. What Diogenes Could Not Tell About the Catacombs.
• Chapter IV. What Diogenes Did Tell About the Catacombs.
• Chapter V. Above Ground.
• Chapter VI. Deliberations.
• Chapter VII. Dark Death.
• Chapter VIII. Darker Still.
• Chapter IX. The False Brother.
• Chapter X. The Ordination in December.
• Chapter XI. The Virgins.
• Chapter XII. The Nomentan Villa.
• Chapter XIII. The Edict.
• Chapter XIV. The Discovery.
• Chapter XV. Explanations.
• Chapter XVI. The Wolf in the Fold.
• Chapter XVII. The First Flower.
• Chapter XVIII. Retribution.
• Chapter XIX. Twofold Revenge.
• Chapter XX. The Public Works.
• Chapter XXI. The Prison.
• Chapter XXII. The Viaticum.
• Chapter XXIII. The Fight.
• Chapter XXIV. The Christian Soldier.
• Chapter XXV. The Rescue.
• Chapter XXVI. The Revival.
• Chapter XXVII. The Second Crown.
• Chapter XXVIII. The Critical Day: Its First Part.
• Chapter XXIX. The Same Day: Its Second Part.
• Chapter XXX. The Same Day: Its Third Part.
• Chapter XXXI. Dionysius.
• Chapter XXXII. The Sacrifice Accepted.
• Chapter XXXIII. Miriam’s History.
• Chapter XXXIV. Bright Death.
• Chapter I. The Stranger from the East.
• Chapter II. The Stranger in Rome.
• Chapter III. And Last.
• About the Author