Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century

Name: Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century
Author: John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman

Newman's historical novel of 1855, set in the Roman proconsular Africa of the persecution under Decius. Agellius, a young Christian, loves Callista, a Greek sculptor who is drawn to Christianity by the longing of her own heart. It is a story of conversion, the plague of locusts, the Church's life under persecution, and Callista's martyrdom.

Source: 36 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's own notes are kept as footnotes. Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.