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A shepherd meets a radiant stranger who vanishes whenever he questions her.
An eloquent abbot leaves his desert monastery to condemn the city’s sins, then discovers how seductive a warning can become.
A boy approaches confession with fear, rivalry, hunger, and a vivid hope that absolution will make him new.
Snowbound at a roadside tavern on Christmas Eve, a young landowner hears how a ruined idealist’s convictions consumed his life.
A dignified old gardener answers a debate about justice with a legend about a town’s extraordinary faith in human goodness.
On Easter Eve, a worried deacon asks a learned priest to condemn his wayward son in a letter neither man can truly own.
At an isolated railway tavern, two devout cousins clash over faith, money, and family rights as resentment turns dangerous.
On a cold Good Friday evening, a theology student tells two widows a Gospel story and is startled by their response.
At a crowded monastery, a traveller shares a room with a young convert whose restless search for learning has left him without a home.
A dying skeptic submits to mesmerism and uses the trance to answer questions about God, matter, pain, and life after death.
Two souls meet after Earth’s destruction, and one explains how a newly discovered comet ended the human world.
A wounded lieutenant keeps vigil against sleep, replaying memory, prayer, and imagined trout streams to hold his soul together after the war.
A young Hungarian revolutionary crosses postwar Italy with no money, a party credential, and an unwavering faith in the world revolution.
After the crucifixion, three Roman soldiers drink, joke, and circle the question of what it means to endure suffering.
A skeptical country doctor recalls the Christmas night when fear, faith, and illness combined to produce what others called a miracle.
A road trip through Normandy leads to a chapel keeper who sells homemade saints and measures his drunkenness by degrees.
A dying disciple of Schopenhauer recalls the night his teacher’s corpse seemed to retain its terrifying power.
Two lovers exchange letters over whether physical desire corrupts love or completes it.
At a desolate tarn, a boatman shows a traveler the blood-red cross marking where the Wandering Jew supposedly died.
A severe priest sets out to confront his niece’s secret lover, but the moonlit countryside challenges his certainty.
A Norman brothel closes for a country confirmation, carrying its lively household from familiar commerce into an unexpected sacred occasion.
A former prosecutor recalls the admired schoolmaster accused of feeding children sweets laced with glass and broken needles.
A nephew’s Good Friday prank sends a kindly Jesuit to the sickbed of his fiercely anticlerical uncle.
A French traveler among English hotel guests turns hymns, dancing, and Scripture into a private war.
