For All the Saints: Perpetua and Felicitas

[Michie]

I ended my last post by saying I would take a break from blogging until Ash Wednesday. And so I will, but not until I post this for todays' Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas.

So just consider this a transmission, via antenna, from periscope depth while still cruising submerged. The account below is related by Doctor of the Church St. Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, from his book, Victories of the Martyrs.


This account includes the testimony of St. Perpetua herself. All you catechumens out there take note: the five catechumens were baptized in prison prior to being thrown to the wild animals so...don't worry. If necessary, you won't have to wait for the Easter Vigil to be baptized and confirmed!

SS. Perpetua and Felicitas of Carthage, with Others
March 7.

St. Augustine makes frequent and honorable mention of these saints in his works, and was wont to hold them up to the people as examples of fidelity to Jesus Christ. The Emperor Severus published an edict, commanding all Christians who refused to sacrifice to the gods to be put to death; whereupon Minutius, the proconsul of Africa, caused five young persons to be arrested at Carthage, who were as yet catechumens, and, together with them, Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas, Sts. Saturninus and Secundums."

Continued- http://yimcatholic.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-all-saints-perpetua-and-felicitas.html