Perpetua described the physical and emotional torments that she suffered in the prison leading up to her martyrdom. Perpetua suffered physically due to the heat, rough prison guards, and the cessation of …

Perpetua was a Christian martyr who wrote The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, a journal recounting her trial and imprisonment that was continued by a contemporary who described …

Read more about the story of Perpetua from our interviews with New Testament scholars. A number of young catechumens were arrested, Revocatus and his fellow slave Felicitas, Saturninus and...

Aug 3, 2023 · Perpetua, a young Christian in the African city of Carthage, was nearing the end of the time of training that every new believer received. She and several other new believers – Saturninus, …

Feb 7, 2024 · In 203 CE, a young, African Christian woman named Vibia Perpetua was executed in a brutal fashion. She and her fellow Christians were taken to the amphitheatre of Carthage (now in …

Among those arrested during this period, two Christian women from Carthage, Perpetua and Felicity, became especially well known. Their arrest, trial, and execution were recorded in one of the earliest …

Perpetua was a 22 year old noblewoman and nursing mother, while her companion Felicitas (or Felicity), an expectant mother, was her slave. They suffered at Carthage in the Roman Province of Africa …

Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus.

Mar 7, 2025 · Despite threats of persecution and death, Perpetua, Felicity–a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus, refused to renounce their …

Mar 7, 2025 · Saints Perpetua and Felicity, early Christian martyrs, died in Carthage in 203, celebrated for their faith and bravery, and commemorated in the Roman Canon of the Mass.