Callista Sheed & Ward Building on the theology of

Building on the theology of Thomas Aquinas in particular (and anticipating the teachings of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI)

he is best known for his Father Brown detective stories and his influential apologetic works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man

preserved with sacredness and set forth according to truth

(Book of Isaiah)

Callista Sheed & Ward Building on the theology ofBy Saint John Henry Newman Callista: The Emperor Decius is brutally persecuting the Christians of Sicca Veneria. Callista, a beautiful Greek sculptress, is not herself a follower of the Christyet she is drawn into their world when Agellius, a Christian, seeks her hand in marriage. After a plague incites further persecution, Callista is mistakenly arrested and imprisoned. The sudden intervention of the mysterious Caecilius offers relief for Callista