Above: Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. Quo Vadis by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz is a masterful fictional retelling of the events surrounding Nero’s fire in Rome, 64 A.D. The fast-paced action depicts pagan parties, the bleak catacombs and prisons, and finally the amphitheater where countless martyrs sacrifice their lives for their Faith. The novel illustrates in fine detail the…
