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![[picture: Front Cover, Fabiola]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/tn/000-front-cover-q70-351x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Fabiola]")
Pictures from the novel Fabiola, or the Church of the Catacombs by Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1802 – 1865), translated into French by M. Richard Viot, and published in Tours in 1887 by Alfred Mame et Fils. It’s a story set in Rome in the 4th Century after Christ. The Chrisitans behave so well and are so full of love that the others around them are converted; clearly not a modern tale.
Illustrations are by Joseph Blanc (1846 – 1904)
The book is bound in red cloth with gold on the cover.
I found a copy of Cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola online at a page of history-inspired French novels.
I bought my copy at a small bookshop near the opera, in Paris, no more than twenty minutes’ walk from the Bastille Monument, probably Librairie la Sirène.
Title: Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs
Translated by: Viot, M. Richard
Published by: Alfred Mame et Fils
City: Tours
Date: 1887
Total items: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover, Fabiola]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/000-front-cover-q67-140x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Fabiola]")
The front cover of this book is pinted in black with gold foil on red cloth. There’s a picture of a man in a Roman gown and bare feet standing in an arena looking up at the emperor Diocletian (identified by lettering underneath him) whie a leapard growls. A ded Christan’s feet can be seen on the ground [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Initial letter Q: monk with pick-axe]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/201-initial-letter-q-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Initial letter Q: monk with pick-axe]")
Initial letter Q: monk with pick-axe
The letter “Q” surmounted by a bird (a stork?) and with flowers all around, contains a man carrying a pickaxe and wearing a monk’s or cleric’s robe marked with the sign of the [more...] [$]
![[picture: Chapter tailpiece, winged angel holding cross]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/200-tailpiece-angel-mary-q60-188x200.jpg "[picture: Chapter tailpiece, winged angel holding cross]")
Chapter tailpiece, winged angel holding cross
Engraving showing a woman with wings and a robe at the foot of a large cross, holding it up; the cross is [more...] [$]
![[picture: Border of Peace from Front Cover.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/000-front-cover-detail-peace-border-q85-34x200.jpg "[picture: Border of Peace from Front Cover.]"){kind=small}
Border of Peace from Front Cover.
The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of [more...] [$]
![[picture: Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/000-front-cover-detail-peace-border-detail-px-q75-184x200.jpg "[picture: Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.]")
Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.
The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on [...] [more...] [$]
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