Sts. Perpetua and Felicity
Patron Saints of Mothers
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church. Perpetua and Felicity lived very different lives before their eventual martyrdom. Perpetua was a well-educated noblewoman while Felicity was a slave woman. They became acquainted in prison, awaiting their death for being Christians. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity is Perpetua’s diary of their time in prison together before their martyrdom. Being from the early 200s, it is one of the oldest surviving first person writings of the Church.