![]() The third, a peplum film version called La rivolta degli schiavi ( The Revolt of the Slaves) was directed by Nunzio Malasomma in 1960 (with Rhonda Fleming as the fabulous Fabiola!).Īt his site Mercy and Mary, Catholic priest Fr. The second, the subject of this entry, was Alessandro Blasetti's lavish Franco-Italian film version Fabiola released in 1949. ![]() The first was an Italian silent version directed by Enrico Guazzoni in 1918 ( available on YouTube). Wiseman's novel was notable for weaving a number of martyrdom accounts and legends of real-life Christian saints into his fictitious story, and inspired three filmic adaptations. Fabiola, a Roman matron who converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, Wiseman's Fabiola situates itself earlier in time than the historical saint during the years of martyrdom when Christians were being persecuted under the reign of Roman Emperor Diocletian, but tracks narratively with the tale of a young Roman beauty spoiled by her father Fabius who-transformed through her witness of Christian charity and compassion-converts to Christianity. ![]() ![]() Let's hear it for the creative side effects of Christian indignation! In 1853, Charles Kingsley authored Hypatia, whose deliberate anti-Catholic tone incensed English Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman to pen his own novel Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs, published a mere year later ( currently available for online reading). ![]()
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