Charlestown's Julian Bauer Publishes his Fifth Book

CATONSVILLE, MD -- Charlestown retirement community's resident Julian Bauer has published his fifth book, "The Hidden Saint: The Sixteenth Century Church in Crisis" (eLectio Publishing). It is a historical novel about Saint Carlo (Charles) Borromeo who served as the Archbishop of Milan after the Protestant Reformation.

“I did a lot of expository writing throughout my career, but I didn’t begin writing fiction until seven years ago,” says Julian, former Director of Financial Management and Budgeting at the Social Security Administration.

The inspiration for Julian’s novels emanated from his curiosity surrounding his Catholic religion and interest in the early Christian church.

“I started doing research about various aspects of my own religion throughout different periods of time—first century, fourth century, sixteenth century, and current times,” says Julian. “I began reading biographies of important people from those time periods. There are an awful lot of things I learned that I wanted my grandchildren to know, so I began jotting down notes as I read and then later I began melding them into novels.”

Years before he ever began writing, Julian formed his own worldwide touring company, Bauer World-Wide Tours, traveling to some of the locations now featured in his books.

“I’ve walked the Great Wall of China; visited Ground Zero in Nagasaki (and New York); took the subway in St. Petersburg; saw the Northern Lights at the edge of the Bering Sea (in winter); touched the southernmost landfall in South America; danced the tango in Buenos Aires; sang Molly Malone in an Irish pub; ate fish and chips in London; hiked the Alps, watched the southern sky in the Outback of Australia, sailed down the Yangtze River; shot a blowgun in the Amazon forests; and have had more adventures than I can remember,” he writes on his blog: callbauer.org.

Julian has already begun researching his next book, a novel about two brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica (present-day Greece), who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries.

He and his wife Carmen sold their town home in Columbia and moved to Charlestown in 2016. Carmen volunteers as a receptionist for the Pastoral Ministries department at Charlestown’s historic Our Lady of the Angels Chapel while Julian serves as an usher and altar server and is an active member of the Catholic War Veterans, a faith-based veterans' organization.

"The Hidden Saint: The Sixteenth Century Church in Crisis," as well as Julian's other books are available for download on Kindle. Paperback versions are available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.

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This story was written by Danielle Rexrode.

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