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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: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Mediaeval Torture Instruments]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/265-instruments-of-torture-q50-170x200.jpg "[picture: Mediaeval Torture Instruments]")
![[picture: Fig. 41.---Un loculus ouvert. (A loculus, or Roman tomb, open.)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/162-a-loculus-open-q67-307x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 41.---Un loculus ouvert. (A loculus, or Roman tomb, open.)]")
Fig. 41.—Un loculus ouvert. (A loculus, or Roman tomb, open.)
The picture is showing a burial from the early Christian period, probably in Rome, in a catacomb. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/000-front-cover-detail-peace-border-detail-px-q75-184x200.jpg "[picture: Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.]")
Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.
The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: Decorative initial letter ``D'' with lady and saint and birds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/164-initial-letter-d-with-saints-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter ``D'' with lady and saint and birds]")
Decorative initial letter “D” with lady and saint and birds
This “vignetted” initial capital letter “D” was used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. The capital D is framed inside a stylized frond or creeper vine emanating from a vase with fruit on it; behind (to the left of) the D stands a person with a halo (itself giving off fronds) and wearing ornate robes and a crown. I am guesing that this is intended to represent Saint Louis IV of France [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative Initial letter ``I'' With sunbathing lady and birds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wiseman-Fabiola/wm/big/152-letter-i-with-sunbathing-woman-and-birds-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative Initial letter ``I'' With sunbathing lady and birds]")
Decorative Initial letter “I” With sunbathing lady and birds
This “vignetted” initial capital letter I was used as a drop cap at the start of a chapter. It includes two birds (songbirds I think, by their shapes) siting on swirly vines; two urns sprouting out of branches; a trellis with ivy; tulips; and, at the base, a woman wearing a very brief costume of leaves lying in a shady bower, or perhaps darkened [...] [more...]
[$]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.
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