This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.

Perpetua is visited by other Christians in prison. If the governor were trying to get all the Christians in Carthage, he just could have arrested whoever is going to visit Perpetua. But he doesn't.

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A noblewoman from Carthage converted to Christianity. A decision that changed everything. Perpetua was a noblewoman from Carthage who had a guaranteed life of comfort ahead of her. Born in the late ...

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Two hundred years after the birth of Jesus, a young mother in Roman occupied Carthage in North Africa pays the ultimate price for her faith in God.