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 ...

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 ...