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Antioch's actress is Cynthia Mamuta, who had "a magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best-Selling Preacher | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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