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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

She slept sound; she dreamed. She thought she was no longer in Africa, but in her own Greece, more sunny and bright than before; but the inhabitants were gone. Its majestic mountains, its rich plains, its expanse of waters, all silent: no one to converse with, no one to sympathize with. And, as she wandered on and wondered, suddenly its face changed, and its colours were illuminated tenfold by a heavenly glory, and each hue upon the scene was of a beauty she had never known, and seemed strangely to affect all her senses at once, being fragrance and music, as well as light. And there came out of the grottoes and glens and woods, and out of the seas, myriads of bright images, whose forms she could not discern; and these came all around her, and became a sort of scene or landscape, which she could not have described in words, as if it were a world of spirits, not of matter. And as she gazed, she thought she saw before her a well-known face, only glorified. She, who had been a slave, now was arrayed more brilliantly than an oriental queen; and she looked at Callista with a smile so sweet, that Callista felt she could but dance to it.