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

About this book

Historical tales from the time of John Chrysostom

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

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