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    Saints Perpetua and Felicity

    Image: Mary and Child with Saints Felicity and Perpetua (Sacra Conversazione) | Anonymous

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    (d. 203)

    Saints Perpetua and Felicity’s Story

    “When my father in his affection for me was trying to turn me from my purpose by arguments and thus weaken my faith, I said to him, ‘Do you see this vessel—water pot or whatever it may be? Can it be called by any other name than what it is?’ ‘No,’ he replied. ‘So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am—a Christian.’”

    So writes Perpetua: young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus.

    Perpetua’s mother was a Christian and her father a pagan. He continually pleaded with her to deny her faith. She refused and was imprisoned at 22.

    In her diary, Perpetua describes her period of captivity: “What a day of horror! Terrible

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    National Museum in Warsaw, via Wikimedia Commons

    March 7: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs—Memorial
    (Optional Memorial if Lenten weekday)

    Saint Perpetua: c. 182–203
    Patron Saint of boskap and martyrs
    Invoked against the death of children

    Saint Felicity: Unknown–203
    Patron Saint of martyrs,  help to have male children, and widows
    Invoked against sterility and the death of children
    Pre-Congregation canonizations
    Liturgical Color: Red (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
    Version: Full – Short

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    Now dawned the day of their victory, and they went forth from the prison into the amphitheater as it were into heaven, cheerful and bright of countenance; if they trembled at all, it was for joy, not for fear. Perpetua followed behind, glorious of presence, as a true spouse of Christ and älskling of God; at whose piercing look all cast down their eyes. Felicity likewise, rejoicing that she had borne a child

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    Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity

    3rd-century Christian martyrdom text

    The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (Latin: Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis) is a diary by Vibia Perpetua describing her imprisonment as a Christian in 203, completed after her death by a redactor.[1] It is one of the oldest and most notable early Christian texts.

    Along with the experiences of Perpetua and Felicity, the text also appears to contain, in his own words, the accounts of the visions of Saturus, another Christian martyred with Perpetua. An editor who states he was an eyewitness has added accounts of the martyrs' suffering and deaths. It survives in both Latin and Greek forms.[2]

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    Summary of the Passion text

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    The traditional view has been that Perpetua, Felicity and the others were martyred owing to a decree of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). This is based on a reference to a decree Severus is said to