‘Next, looking for a pin, she pinned up her disheveled hair … lest she should seem to grieve in her glory.’ Anonymous, “Sacra Conversazione: Mary with the Child, St. Felicity of Carthage and St.

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Perpetua and St. Felicity. "In the springtime of the year 203, a young North African woman was taken into custody by Roman soldiers in the city of Carthage, ...

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity are among the female saints included in the First Eucharistic Prayer, the Roman Canon, because they were martyrs. The account of their deaths, written at least in part from ...

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On March 7, 203, Vibia Perpetua—a twenty-one-year-old married woman from a respected Roman family, the mother of a still-nursing one-year-old boy, an indulged daughter whose doting father educated her ...

Find today’s readings here. “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is unworthy of me.” (Mt 10:38) Sometimes it feels like I’ve heard “take up your cross and follow me” too many times.

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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 central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.