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St. Perpetua

Feast 7 March

Catechumen of Carthage. Her diary from prison is the Church’s first woman’s book.

St. Perpetua

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Perpetua is the image this library has of Perpetua. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Martyred 203 with Felicity. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. A young mother who would not recant.

Signs that name Perpetua

If it belongs to Perpetua, it is here, with a door back into the story.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help — Church of St. Alphonsus, Rome
ImageLong veneration

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Church of St. Alphonsus, RomeCretan icon, 15th c.; in Rome from 1499

A Cretan icon of Mother and Child, the Child’s sandal falling as he sees the instruments of the Passion. Entrusted by Pius IX to the Redemptorists to be made known everywhere.