St. Perpetua

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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November 9 · Martyr

St. Perpetua

St. Perpetua

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

November 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

March 7
Verified · General Roman Calendar

Represents

Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Some Latin Martyrologies. Not commemorated by the Greeks. Authority: — S. Clement’s Stromata, quoted by Eusebius, H. E. lib. iii. ILEMENT of Rome, in his Stromata, relates: “The Blessed Peter, seeing his own wife led away to execution, was delighted, on account of her call and return to her country, and he cried to her in a consolatory and encouraging voice, addressing her by name, ‘ Oh, thou, remember the Lord ! ' ” She was the mother of S. Petronilla, who is commemorated on May 31. CNot. 4.

Feast days

Feast: March 7
Traditional: November 9

Nine days · Free

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Credits

Image: Perpetua, Felicitas, Revocatus, Saturninus and Secundulus (Menologion of Basil II).jpg · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.