Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. "e;Quo vadis, Domine?"e; is Latin for "e;Where are you going, Lord?"e; and appears in Chapter 69 of the novel in a retelling of a story from the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome.

Jesus says, "e;If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time"e;, which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom.

This novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1905. Jan Styka was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas.

He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title "e;L'me de la Pologne"e; (The Soul of Poland). From the 1896 edition, Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.