BONIFACE
The Slave. The Lover. The Martyr.
by George G. Spanos
The bewitching Patrician, could be worshiped as a semi-goddess or as a High Priestess by the pagans of her time, if she wasn’t a Christian, and the invigorating Steward of her immense heired fortune, would be the most sought-after bachelor of Imperial Rome, if he hadn't been a Slave.
When they became lovers, their thoughts dared not touch the strings of their future against the moralistic pathogens of the Aristocratic Roman class; neither did they examine whether this utterly real and inevitable love was a forbidden fruit that would keep them out of paradise, or the very nectar that would draw them to its center, and transform them into timeless role models.
Boniface & Aglaida, became for each other the unexpected breath of their mutually entrenched destiny. Who were their powerful enemies and who were the people that came across their path in the Aristocratic Rome and the Catacombs, in Athens, Corinth, Icaria, and Tarsus? Why are they celebrated as a unique Saint couple, since the 3rd century AD?
This is one of the most romantic, astonishing, and spiritual synaxarion, ever narrated to our times.
The writer, after years of academic-level research of all established historical sources available, discovered the couple's traces in Rome, Greece, and Tarsus, and resurfaced their amazing full story. This is their narrative biography.
Publisher : Athos Press, NY
Date : December 19, 2025 (Saint Boniface & Aglaida's feast day)
Language : English
Print length : 466 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8276737560
Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
Reading age : 18+ years
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.17 x 8.5 inches
Soon as an e-book, soon in Greek
When they became lovers, their thoughts dared not touch the strings of their future against the moralistic pathogens of the Aristocratic Roman class; neither did they examine whether this utterly real and inevitable love was a forbidden fruit that would keep them out of paradise, or the very nectar that would draw them to its center, and transform them into timeless role models.
Boniface & Aglaida, became for each other the unexpected breath of their mutually entrenched destiny. Who were their powerful enemies and who were the people that came across their path in the Aristocratic Rome and the Catacombs, in Athens, Corinth, Icaria, and Tarsus? Why are they celebrated as a unique Saint couple, since the 3rd century AD?
This is one of the most romantic, astonishing, and spiritual synaxarion, ever narrated to our times.
The writer, after years of academic-level research of all established historical sources available, discovered the couple's traces in Rome, Greece, and Tarsus, and resurfaced their amazing full story. This is their narrative biography.
Publisher : Athos Press, NY
Date : December 19, 2025 (Saint Boniface & Aglaida's feast day)
Language : English
Print length : 466 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8276737560
Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
Reading age : 18+ years
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.17 x 8.5 inches
Soon as an e-book, soon in Greek