The Good Shepherd fed me at his table before I ever stood at the church’s table. '

Who Was Perpetua?

Vibia Perpetua was a 22-year-old noblewoman living in Carthage, North Africa (modern-day Tunisia) around 203 AD.

She was educated, well-connected, nursing an infant son - and a brand-new Christian, still preparing for baptism, when she was arrested and publicly executed under the Emperor Septimius Severus’s persecution of the church.

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