One Woman’s Sacrifice. One Man’s Undoing.
Thirteen hundred years after her death, Saint Cecilia’s body is exhumed from her grave and young artist Stefano Maderno is commissioned by the pope to sculpt her likeness.
In this gripping tale of passion and agony, two lives separated by centuries are united in their search for purity and purpose. Lori Joan Swick’s The Sculptor and the Saint speaks of a history only ever written in stone.
Writing the untold stories of historical women
Welcome on this journey of truth, discovery and empowerment!
I’m Lori Joan Swick, PhD and I’ve made it my mission to shine a light on the many women whose invaluable contributions to religious history have been overlooked or undervalued.
For centuries, history has been recorded to credit pivotal accomplishments to prominent male figures, leaving the women behind these events out of the picture. In my doctoral dissertation, “She Started It,” I began researching these unsung heroines and writing their stories in hopes of giving them the acclaim they’ve rightly earned.
My latest book, The Sculptor and the Saint, is a historical novel that revisits the legacy of St. Cecilia of ancient Rome from the perspective of the Renaissance artist who was hired by the pope to immortalize her in marble. For more information about The Sculptor and the Saint, click here.
I believe learning the truth about who the real movers and shakers of religious history were will empower women to realize their full autonomy in the modern world.
Together, let’s honor the past and inspire the future!
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