Perpetua of carthage biography of mahatma
Perpetua of carthage biography of mahatma
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Felicitas et Perpetua
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.
203
Ancient Christian Church
Tunisia
Felicitas and Perpetua, two young North African Christian women, and three companions were thrown to wild animals and killed for their faith at Carthage on March 7, 203.
A gripping account of their last days remains, written by Perpetua, a twenty-two-year-old woman of noble birth and the mother of a small child.
A local Christian in Carthage collected the narratives and added a commentary, making this vivid account one of the earliest and most dramatic documents of martyrdom.
The Passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicitas, and their Companions was widely read in the early church as an instructional document on how Christians should face persecution.
Felicitas and Perpetua and their companions lived during a time of persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Septimus Severus (193-211).
Perpetua’s father was