Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era

Set in early first-century Mediterranean cities such as Tarsus and Rome, the novel follows a young man whose encounters with Jewish ritual, pagan mystery, and the emerging Christian movement prompt deep moral and spiritual transformation. Through friendships, love conflicts, mystical visions, rescues, imprisonment, and journeys westward, the narrative traces the spread of a new faith and the protagonist’s interior development. Historical figures appear alongside fictional creations, and scenes alternate between public ceremonies, psychic experiences, and legal peril, exploring themes of idealism, conscience, conversion, and the tension between duty and personal longing.