Voices and influences
Perpetua of Carthage
A 22-year-old mother who kept a diary in prison and walked into the arena singing.
Summary
This site quotes Perpetua of Carthage 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 182 to 203, Roman North African.
- Quoted here most in 1 Peter: 1 of 1.
Perpetua of Carthage
- Lived
- 182 to 203
- Nation
- Roman North African
- Tradition
- Early church martyr
1 of 1 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because Perpetua of Carthage died in 203 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“I am a Christian.”
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, her own narrative, chapter 2, section 2
Undated in the archive this site cites.
1 Peter 4:16 But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name. BSB
Influence, on the record
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The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Vibia Perpetua was a young noblewoman of Carthage, newly a mother and newly a believer, when the emperor's edict made her faith a capital crime. Her father came to the prison again and again to beg her to recant; she answered that she could no more be called anything but what she was — a Christian. The diary she kept in prison, finished by an eyewitness after her death, is one of the earliest pieces of Christian writing we have from a woman's own hand. On the day of the games she and her servant Felicity, who had given birth in prison days before, went into the arena together and died together. The account was read aloud in North African churches for centuries.
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