![]() ![]() The Acta, apparently a somewhat later text, which includes an account of the interrogation of the martyrs and greatly abbreviates Perpetua’s description of her four visions while in prison, was accepted as the definitive version of the story from the end of antiquity until the later seventeenth century and used in the Christian liturgy it has now been eclipsed by scholarly excitement over the apparently unique female voice and startlingly effective imagery of Perpetua’s portion of the Passio. Although it has been the subject of much debate, the account of their time in prison and their execution in the arena, later known as the Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, is now usually accepted as having been put together in Latin shortly after these events by an editor, or possibly editors, from two earlier documents, the prison diaries of Perpetua and her religious instructor Saturus, to which an introduction and a graphic description of the deaths have been added. ![]() Vibia Perpetua, a young Roman matron, was martyred in Carthage on March 7, 203, with a group of her fellow Christians. ![]()
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