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Callista

John Henry Newman
Chapters (39)
  1. COVER
  2. DEDICATION
  3. CHAPTER I.SICCA VENERIA.
  4. CHAPTER II.CHRISTIANITY IN SICCA.
  5. CHAPTER III.AGELLIUS IN HIS COTTAGE.
  6. CHAPTER IV.JUBA.
  7. CHAPTER V.JUCUNDUS AT SUPPER.
  8. CHAPTER VI.GOTHS AND CHRISTIANS.
  9. CHAPTER VII.PERSECUTION IN THE OFFING.
  10. CHAPTER VIII.THE NEW GENERATION.
  11. CHAPTER IX.JUCUNDUS BAITS HIS TRAP.
  12. CHAPTER X.THE DIVINE CALLISTA.
  13. CHAPTER XI.CALLISTA’S PREACHING, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
  14. CHAPTER XII.A DEATH.
  15. CHAPTER XIII.AND RESURRECTION.
  16. CHAPTER XIV.A SMALL CLOUD.
  17. CHAPTER XV.A VISITATION.
  18. CHAPTER XVI.WORSE AND WORSE.
  19. CHAPTER XVII.CHRISTIANOS AD LEONES.
  20. CHAPTER XVIII.AGELLIUS FLITS.
  21. CHAPTER XIX.A PASSAGE OF ARMS.
  22. CHAPTER XX.HE SHALL NOT LOSE HIS REWARD.
  23. CHAPTER XXI.STARTLING RUMOURS.
  24. CHAPTER XXII.JUCUNDUS PROPOUNDS HIS VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
  25. CHAPTER XXIII.GURTA.
  26. CHAPTER XXIV.A MOTHER’S BLESSING.
  27. CHAPTER XXV.CALLISTA IN DURANCE.
  28. CHAPTER XXVI.WHAT CAN IT ALL MEAN?
  29. CHAPTER XXVII.AM I A CHRISTIAN?
  30. CHAPTER XXVIII.A SICK CALL.
  31. CHAPTER XXIX.CONVERSION.
  32. CHAPTER XXX.TORRES VEDRAS.
  33. CHAPTER XXXI.THE BAPTISM.
  34. CHAPTER XXXII.THE IMPERIAL RESCRIPT.
  35. CHAPTER XXXIII.A GOOD CONFESSION.
  36. CHAPTER XXXIV.THE MARTYRDOM.
  37. CHAPTER XXXV.THE CORPO SANTO.
  38. CHAPTER XXXVI.LUX PERPETUA SANCTIS TUIS, DOMINE.
  39. FOOTNOTES

COVER

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DEDICATION

To

HENRY WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.

To you alone, who have known me so long, and who love me so well, could I venture to offer a trifle like this. But you will recognise the author in his work, and take pleasure in the recognition.

J. H. N.

ADVERTISEMENT.

It is hardly necessary to say that the following Tale is a simple fiction from beginning to end. It has little in it of actual history, and not much claim to antiquarian research; yet it has required more reading than may appear at first sight.

It is an attempt to imagine and express, from a Catholic point of view, the feelings and mutual relations of Christians and heathens at the period to which it belongs, and it has been undertaken as the nearest approach which the Author could make to a more important work suggested to him from a high ecclesiastical quarter.

September 13, 1855.

POSTSCRIPTS TO LATER EDITIONS.

February 8, 1856.—Since the volume has been in print, the Author finds that his name has got abroad. This gives him reason to add, that he wrote great part of Chapters I., IV., and V., and sketched the character and fortunes of Juba, in the early spring of 1848. He did no more till the end of last July, when he suddenly resumed the thread of his tale, and has been successful so far as this, that he has brought it to an end.

Without being able to lay his finger upon instances in point, he has some misgiving lest, from a confusion between ancient histories and modern travels, there should be inaccuracies, antiquarian or geographical, in certain of his minor statements, which carry with them authority when they cease to be anonymous.

February 2, 1881.—October, 1888.—In a tale such as this, which professes in the very first sentence of its Advertisement to be simple fiction from beginning to end, details may be allowably filled up by the writer’s imagination and coloured by his personal opinions and beliefs, the only rule binding on him being this—that he has no right to contravene acknowledged historical facts. Thus it is that Walter Scott exercises a poet’s licence in drawing his Queen Elizabeth and his Claverhouse, and the author of “Romola” has no misgivings in even imputing hypothetical motives and intentions to Savonarola. Who, again, would quarrel with Mr. Lockhart, writing in Scotland, for excluding Pope, or Bishops, or sacrificial rites from his interesting Tale of Valerius?