Quo Vadis ALLTA to the establishment of monasticism

to the establishment of monasticism

We make gods of those we love wrongly

her own “perfect knight

inspiration for her Nobel Prize in Literature―The Master of Hestviken captures the manners

“is as relentless in unmasking a false way of life as war

Quo Vadis ALLTA to the establishment of monasticismBy Henryk Sienkiewicz Translated by Jeremiah Curtin As Rome swelters under the lecherous tyranny of Emperor Nero, the young patrician Marcus Vinicius finds himself ruled by a far gentler (yet perhaps more dangerous) power: his love for the pure and beautiful Lygia. Yet Lygia is a member of that strange and fledgling cult of Christians, and as such refuses to make the Roman ways her ways. In pursuit of this seemingly unattainable woman, Vinicius is