Perpetua was a Christian martyr born about 182 in Carthage (now a residential suburb of Tunis, Tunisia). Arrested after her conversion to Christianity, she wrote a journal recounting her trial and imprisonment. Her journal, known as The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, was continued by a fellow Christian contemporary who described Perpetua’s death in the Roman arena. Her journal is significant as one of the rare surviving documents written by a woman in the ancient world.
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