Perpetua's Journal from the Arena Floor
In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son and writing in her journal....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Colossians 3:1-4.
In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son and writing in her journal. She was twenty-two years old, well-educated, from a prominent family. Her father begged her to recant her faith — just speak a few words honoring the emperor, and she could walk free into the North African sun, back to wealth, comfort, and her child.…
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