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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

On this Agellius, who was slowly making his way past them on the broken and steep path, leapt up in two or three steps to the ridge, and went away in security; when one woman cried out, “O the toad, I know him now; he is a wizard; he eats little children; didn’t you see him make that sign? it’s a charm. My sister did it; the fool left me to be one of them. She was ever doing so” (mimicking the sign of the cross). “He’s a Christian, blight him! he’ll turn us into beasts.”

“Cerberus, bite him!” said another, “he sucks blood;” and taking up a stone, she made it whiz past his ear as he disappeared from view. A general scream of contempt and hatred followed. “Where’s the ass’s head? put out the lights, put out the lights! gibbet him! that’s why he has not been with honest people down in the vale.” And then they struck up a blasphemous song, the sentiments of which we are not going even to conceive, much less to attempt in words.

CHAPTER II.
CHRISTIANITY IN SICCA.