Perpetua's Diary of Heaven

In March of 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Perpetua sat in a sweltering Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through the iron bars. She was twenty-two years old, well-educated, from a respected family — and she had just been arrested for professing faith in Christ. Her father begged her to recant. The Roman procurator Hilarianus offered her a way out.…