What is particularly special is that about half of the document was written by the martyr herself: Chapters 1-3 were penned by St. Perpetua while she was awaiting execution.

The martyr in question is Vibia Perpetua, who lived during the second and early third century and suffered for her religious beliefs. She and a slave woman named Felicity were both part of a group ...

Celsiana Warwick, Christian Martyr as Homeric Hero: A Literary Allusion in Perpetua's Passio, The Classical Journal, Vol. 114, No. 1 (October-November 2018), pp. 86-109 ...

The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the ...

Perpetua was a young Christian woman and martyr who died just after the year 200 in North Africa. When she was still a catechumen, she and several acquaintances were taken into custody.

Perpetua meekly yielded, and was led, as a lamb to tlie sacrifice, to Miss Hibbens’s feet, who, enchanted to have her fairly in her power, cut and snipped and trimmed and pinched and pared to ...

Perpetua was a noblewoman from Carthage who had a guaranteed life of comfort ahead of her. Born in the late 100’s, she lived with her husband, her son, and her slave. Then she converted to ...