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Saint Perpetua, a young mother put to death in a Roman amphitheatre

Written by Caillan Davenport, Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University

Mosaic depicting female saints, including Perpetua (second right) and Felicitas, in Ravenna, Italy.Nick Thompson/Cult of the Saints, CC BY-NC-SA

In 203 CE, a young, African Christian woman named Vibia Perpetua was executed in a brutal fashion.

She and her fellow Christians were taken to the amphitheatre of Carthage (now in Tunisia), where they were...

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