Helena by Evelyn Waugh, , U.K. review

This week’s UK Catholic Herald has a lovely article by Milo Yiannopoulos on Evelyn Waugh’s little known  and “underrated” historical novel, Helena, based on the life on St. Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine and the woman who is said to have discovered the True Cross on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Here’s a paragrah:

Waugh’s most obviously Catholic novel, Helena, is also his shortest. It concerns the pilgrimage of the empress Helena, consort of Emperor Constantius and mother of Constantine the Great, to Palestine. Part fictional account and part Catholic apologetic, the novel accomplishes the impossible: it encapsulates the essence of the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity while not, in a sense, being principally concerned with it.

Read the rest of the article here.