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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 150. Not illustrated. Chapters: Pupienus and Balbinus, Perpetua and Felicity, Gaius Calpurnius Piso, Theban Legion, Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Priscilla and Aquila, Licinia, Caecilius Metellus, Scillitan Martyrs, Gaius Iulius Iullus, Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus, Lucius Valerius Flaccus, Rufina and Secunda, Quintus Pedius, Lucius Julius Caesar, Julia Caesaris, Saint Hippolytus, Quintus Veranius, Publius Cornelius Scipio, Ahala, Agaclytus, Sextus Julius Caesar, Theodora and Didymus, Gaius Fonteius Agrippa, Last of the Romans, Ananias and Sapphira, Aulus Pompeius, Agroecius, Elias and Companions, Quadratus, Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, Antonia and Alexander, Saint Leonidas, Lucius Albinius, Gaius Matius, Lentulus, Publius Crassus, Decius, Scipio Africanus, Tremellius Scrofa, Rufus and Carpophorus, Gaius Claudius Marcellus, Lucius Calpurnius Piso, Titus Manlius Torquatus, Titus Flavius Sabinus. Excerpt: Perpetua and Felicity (died on 7 March 203) are Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Perpetua (born in 181) was a 22-year old married noble, and a nursing mother. Her co-martyr Felicity, an expectant mother, was her slave. They suffered together at Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. The record of the "Passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicitas, and their Companions" is said to preserve the actual words of the martyrs and their friends. According to this Passion, in the year 203, during the persecutions of the emperor Septimius Severus, five catechumens were arrested for their faith. The group consisted of a slave named Revocatus, his fellow slave Felicitas, two free men (Saturninus and Secundulus), and Perpetua. Perpetua's father was a pagan, her mother and two brothers Christians, one of the brothers being a catechumen. These five prisoners were soon joined by Saturus, who seems to have been...
