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The Church Fathers · 203
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Vibia Perpetua and an editor · Perpetua d. 203
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What it is
A young Carthaginian mother's own record of her arrest, her father's pleading, her nursing infant, and four dreams — a ladder guarded by a dragon, a contest in the arena — completed by an eyewitness account of her death.
Why it lasted
The earliest surviving writing by a Christian woman, and one of the most extraordinary personal documents of antiquity.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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