title: Stones and Stories: An Introduction to Archeology and the Bible
author:  Don C. Benjamin 
description: Don C. Benjamin teaches biblical and ancient Near Eastern Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Old Testament Story: An Introduction with CD-ROM (2003,978-0-8006-3621-0). He lives in Tempe, Arizona.
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  Citadel of God
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Citadel of God
  
  
  A Novel about  
  Saint Benedict
  
  
  by  
  Louis de Wohl
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First edition published by  
  J. B. Lippincott Company  
  Philadelphia and New York
  
  
  Cover by Christopher J. Pelicano
  
  
  © 1959, Louis de Wohl  
  Renewed 1987 by Ruth Magdelene de Wohl  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 0-89870-404-9 (PB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-102-8 (EB)  
  Library of Congress catalogue number 91-77212  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  [Book One](index_split_004.html#filepos1763)
  
  
  [Book Two](index_split_016.html#filepos272082)
  
  
  [Book Three](index_split_030.html#filepos565734)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Book One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # 1
  
  
  “ROME IS FINISHED”, said Senator Albinus. He sipped his wine, then held up the
  goblet carved from amethyst. “Very pretty”, he approved. “I wonder where they
  find stones large enough to be cut like this. Very pretty.”
  
  
  Senator Boethius frowned. “They come from India, I 