Latinism in Christian context, that means where are you going?. It has a Christian tradition that St. Peter Apia fled from Rome via due to the persecution of Nero in the year 64, when he had a vision of Christ with the cross walking in direction to Rome. Then tells Peter: Quo vadis, Domine? ( Where are you going, Sir? ). Quo vadis? It is also a novel of the 19th century by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, versioned in the film on numerous occasions during the twentieth century