Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom

About this book

A historical novel by Frederic W. Farrar set in Constantinople in the days of John Chrysostom. Through the eyes of its characters, the tale depicts the splendor and corruption of the late Roman court church, and the preacher whose boldness cost him exile. Victorian historical fiction grounded in the fourth-century church.

Contents

1. Preface
2. The Gathering Storm
3. The Riot
4. The Agony, and the Consoler
5. Two Visitors by Night
6. The Hermit and the Boy
7. The Demoniac
8. The Judgment on the City
9. The Thunderbolt averted 🔒
10. Philip is Baptised 🔒
11. Passing Years 🔒
12. Goths at Antioch 🔒
13. The Presbyter 🔒
14. Two Archbishops 🔒
15. Another Archbishop 🔒
16. The Capture of Chrysostom 🔒
17. Tales by the Way 🔒
18. Constantinople 🔒
19. The Emperor and Empress 🔒
20. Guests at an Imperial Banquet 🔒
21. First Impressions 🔒
22. Anxieties and Troubles, Friends and Foes 🔒
23. Manifold Struggles 🔒
24. Face to Face with Shams 🔒
25. The Consulship of Eutropius 🔒
26. The Goths 🔒
27. The Fall of Eutropius 🔒
28. In Sanctuary 🔒
29. Inevitable Nemesis 🔒
30. Eutyches is Indignant 🔒
31. The Goths at Constantinople 🔒
32. The Doomed Three 🔒
33. Three Youths save Constantinople 🔒
34. The Massacre 🔒
35. Gaïnas meets his Doom 🔒
36. Walamir and Eutyches 🔒
37. His Murdered Father's Head 🔒
38. The World, the Flesh, and the Devil 🔒
39. Fresh Troubles 🔒
40. Bad Ecclesiastics and Base Plots 🔒
41. A Visit from Vigilantius 🔒
42. A Farewell 🔒
43. The Misdoings of Severian 🔒
44. 'Ecce Iterum Crispinus!' 🔒
45. Epiphanius intervenes 🔒
46. Episcopal Conspirators 🔒
47. The Earthquake 🔒
48. Eudoxia's Statue 🔒
49. The Forged Sermon 🔒
50. Intrigue Triumphant 🔒
51. Prolonged Agony 🔒
52. Driven Forth 🔒
53. Conflagration 🔒
54. Dragged on his Way 🔒
55. A Reign of Terror 🔒
56. A Burning, Fiery Furnace 🔒
57. Eutyches and Philip in Profundis 🔒
58. Gleams of Returning Dawn 🔒
59. The Return of Kallias 🔒
60. Walamir and St. Telemachus 🔒
61. The Vengeance of Heaven 🔒
62. Philip and the Emperor 🔒
63. Philip visits St. Nilus 🔒
64. Philip and St. Jerome 🔒
65. Philip and the Desposyni 🔒
66. Two Happy Bridals 🔒
67. Philip at Antioch 🔒
68. The Exile at Cucusus 🔒
69. The Martyrdom 🔒
70. A Last Visit to Arcadius 🔒
71. Affairs in the West 🔒
72. Happy Children and Prosperous Days 🔒
73. The Great Reparation 🔒
74. L'Envoi 🔒