S******A
发帖数: 238 | 1 Perpetua—from her Diary
This is the prison diary of a young woman martyred in Carthage in North
Africa in 202 or 203 AD. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/
narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.
A number of young catechumens were arrested, Revocatus and his fellow slave
Felicitas, Saturninus and Secundulus, and with them Vibia Perpetua, a newly
married woman of good family and upbringing. Her mother and father were
still alive and one of her two brothe |
|
