The novel “The Plath of Saint Veronica” tells how a young heroine (she is about fifteen years old) independently, in her own way, comes to God. While still a girl, after the death of her mother, Veronica is sent from Germany to Rome, where her grandmother and aunt Edelgart live. Veronica's father was once in love with Edel, who preferred Divine love to earthly love, after which he married her sister. The father insists that the girl be raised outside the religious world of her aunt, since he himself has long lost contact with the Church. Veronica finds herself as if between two worlds, where “the grandmother called herself a pagan, Aunt Edel loved to be considered a Catholic, and the little Jeannette indeed was like that.” The center of this domestic kingdom is Veronica’s grandmother - an amazing woman who experienced tragic love in the very prime of her life. Beautiful externally and internally, she is unusually educated, intelligent, and has a strong character. The Eternal City is the object of her passionate worship, and travels around Rome occupy a significant place in the narrative. Rome in this novel, coexisting in pagan terms as the focus of beauty and freedom of spirit and in Christian terms as the sacred heart of the world, ultimately becomes a high symbol of the victory of light over darkness, the philosophical embodiment of Eternal Love.