March 7
Saints of the Day... and Events

    When my father in his affection for me was trying to turn me from my purpose by arguments and thus weaken my faith, I said to him, ‘Do you see this vessel—water pot or whatever it may be? Can it be called by any other name than what it is?’ ‘No,’ he replied. ‘So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am—a Christian.’”

    So writes Perpetua, young, beautiful, a noblewoman of Carthage, imprisoned at 22, mother of an infant son, a chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus.

    Despite threats of persecution and death, Perpetua, Felicity (a slave-woman and expectant mother) and three companions, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus, refused to renounce their Christian faith. For their unwillingness, all were sent to the public games in the amphitheater. There, Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts.

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1315
http://www.cin.org/saints/petandfel.html
SS. Perpetua and Felicity
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/perpetua.html
 

Events of March 7 - Saints of March 7:

http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0307.htm