Today March 7 is the Feast Day of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (believed to have died 7 March 203) are Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Perpetua was a 22-year old noblewoman and a nursing mother. Her co-martyr Felicity, an expectant mother, was her slave. They suffered together at Carthage in the Roman province of Africa, during the reign of Septimius Severus. The Passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicitas, and their Companions is said to preserve the actual account of her arrest and imprisonment. According to the passion, a number of catechumens were arrested for their faith and executed at the military games in celebration of the Emperor Getas birthday. The group consisted of a slave named Revocatus, his fellow slave Felicitas, the two free men Saturninus and Seculdulus, and Perpetua. Scholars generally believe that the narrative was in fact, written by Perpetua. If true, the text is important because Perpetua is one of the first Christian female writers before the fourth century whose works have survived. Saints Felicitas and Perpetua are two of seven women commemorated by name in the second part of the Canon of the Mass. The Blessed Virgin Mary is commemorated in the first part. Learn more here: catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=48
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:38:13 +0000
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