HIST 1001 Chapter : History9
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Vibia perpetua, was executed in the arena in carthage on 7 march 203. The account of her martyrdom - technically a passion -is apparently historical and has special interest as much of it was written [section 3-10], in latin by perpetua herself before her death. This makes it one of the earliest pieces of writing by a christian woman: 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 brothers was a catechumen like herself. While we were still under arrest (she said) my father out of love for me was trying to persuade me and shake my resolution. "father," said i, "do you see this vase here, for example, or waterpot or whatever?"
