caption death_date death_place canonized_date feast_day article_title venerated_in patronage birth_date titles image prayer name
stained-glass of notre-dame of vierzon , france , 19th century -rrb- window : martyrdom of st perpetua and her fellows in the of stadium of carthage ; saint felicity on her left st perpetua of carthage -lrb- church c. 203 carthage -rrb- , roman province of africa -lrb- modern-day tunisia pre-congregation roman catholic church : perpetua and felicity
 roman orthodox churches , anglican communion , lutheran church catholic church , eastern orthodox churches , oriental mothers carthage , catalunya , expectant mothers , ranchers , butchers , unknown martyrs verrière , xixe siècle -rrb- . jpg de sainte perpétue -lrb- église notre-dame de vierson father felicity strength to suffer a cruel martyrdom . by their , prayers , help us to grow in love of you your . we ask this through christ your son , who love lives and reigns with you and the holy spirit , gave one god , for ever . amen your martyrs perpetua and saints perpetua and felicity
perpetua and felicity

saints perpetua and felicity -lrb- believed to have died 203 -rrb- are christian martyrs of the 3rd century .
perpetua was a married noblewoman , said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death , and mother of an infant she was nursing .
felicity , a slave 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 .
`` the passion of st. perpetua , st. felicitas , and their companions '' is one of the oldest and most notable early christian texts .
it survives in both latin and greek forms , and purports to contain the actual prison diary of the young mother and martyr perpetua .
scholars generally believe that it is authentic although in the form we have it may have been edited by others .
the text also purports 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 .
according to the passion , a slave named revocatus , his fellow slave felicitas , the two free men saturninus and secundulus , and perpetua , who were catechumens , that is , christians being instructed in the faith but not yet baptized , were arrested and executed at the military games in celebration of the emperor geta 's birthday .
to this group was added a man named saturus , who voluntarily went before the magistrate and proclaimed himself a christian .
