5/8/2023 0 Comments Byzantium stephen lawhead![]() He eventually returns to Britain serves for a while as an assistant to Bishop Cornelius, who helps him find his faith again studies in Gaul and goes on to Rome, where he becomes a city official, marries and has a daughter. Having lost his faith in the Christian God while a slave, Succat studies druid theology and lives in a home with other druids, who give him the name "Patrick," Celtic for nobleman. After years of brutal conditions, he manages to escape. Succat, the son of a Christian family of well-to-do fifth-century Britons, is captured by Irish raiders and sent to Ireland as a slave. ![]() ![]() Though Succat, the hero, does not receive his more familiar name until late in the story and doesn't encounter even a single snake, he blazes a thrilling-and meticulously researched-trail across the Holy Roman Empire. Devotees of prolific historical novelist Lawton ( The Iron Lance) will enjoy this picaresque, which follows the legendary eponymous Irish saint through the "lost years" between his escape from slavery and his missionary work in Ireland. ![]()
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