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https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/956/2019/03/Perpetua-and-Felicity-for-Patheos.jpg768404Most of the Passion of Perpetua is told in her own voice, written by her own hand, completed the day before she faced the beasts in the arena in Carthage. This makes her one of the few women in history to explain for herself the circumstances of her own martyrdom, and certainly the most ancient.