Quo Vadis Saints and “Songs of Ascents” toward

and “Songs of Ascents” toward ultimate unity with God

the Ten Virgins

upon his death

Mauriac depicted the sadness and suffering of ordinary human existence

of “becoming

Quo Vadis Saints and “Songs of Ascents” towardBy 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