The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Perpetua, Saturus and an editor · 203 · Before the division · public-domain-original
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An account of the Carthage martyrdoms of 203 built round two prison diaries — Perpetua's own and Saturus' — framed by an editor who saw the end. Perpetua's section is the earliest surviving writing by a Christian woman and one of the very few first-person texts from any woman of the Roman world: she records her father's visits, her infant, her dreams and her fear, in her own voice.