PART II.

Conflict.

I. DIOGENES 205

II. THE CEMETERIES 219

III. WHAT DIOGENES COULD NOT TELL ABOUT THE CATACOMBS 239

IV. WHAT DIOGENES DID TELL ABOUT THE CATACOMBS 248

V. ABOVE GROUND 261

VI. DELIBERATIONS 265

VII. DARK DEATH 275

VIII. DARKER STILL 280

IX. THE FALSE BROTHER 285

X. THE ORDINATION IN DECEMBER 291

XI. THE VIRGINS 300

XII. THE NOMENTAN VILLA 308

XIII. THE EDICT 315

XIV. THE DISCOVERY 325

XV. EXPLANATIONS 330

XVI. THE WOLF IN THE FOLD 335

XVII. THE FIRST FLOWER 356

XVIII. RETRIBUTION 368

XIX. TWOFOLD REVENGE 381

XX. THE PUBLIC WORKS 390

XXI. THE PRISON 396

XXII. THE VIATICUM 403

XXIII. THE FIGHT 419

XXIV. THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER 431

XXV. THE RESCUE 437

XXVI. THE REVIVAL 448

XXVII. THE SECOND CROWN 457

XXVIII. THE CRITICAL DAY: ITS FIRST PART 464

XXIX. THE SAME DAY: ITS SECOND PART 473

XXX. THE SAME DAY: ITS THIRD PART 491

XXXI. DIONYSIUS, PRIEST AND PHYSICIAN 507

XXXII. THE SACRIFICE ACCEPTED 513

XXXIII. MIRIAM’S HISTORY 523

XXXIV. BRIGHT DEATH 532