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Perpetua and Felicity

Also known as Vibia Perpetua, Felicitas

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  • died. 203-03-07high · Wikidata P570

Young noblewoman and enslaved woman martyred in Carthage in 203; the Passion includes a prison diary attributed to Perpetua.

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Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. Felicity, a slave woman imprisoned with her and pregnant at the time, was martyred with her. They were put to death along with others at Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

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  • Catholic Encyclopedia 06029a

women · martyrs · 3rd-century

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