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Podcast: Abstract Essay
Episode: Abstract Essay in its Fifth season, featuring Lori Joan Swick a Ph.D. in religion and philosophy as my guest.
Description: The Sculptor and the SaintOne Woman’s Sacrifice. One Man’s Undoing.Daughter to an ancient Roman senator, Cecilia is forced into a lonely marriage to a loathsome patrician and leaves behind her infatuation for the handsome Sebastian of Milan. With her husband often away on military duty, however, Cecilia seeks refuge through her clandestine meetings with a Christian congregation hiding in the catacombs beneath the Appian Way. When news of Sebastian's torture brings her to his aid and her involvement with Sebastian and the Christians is exposed, Cecilia must face fatal consequences. Thirteen hundr...