<Ul> <Li> 7 March </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Th> Patronage </Th> <Td> Mothers, Expectant Mothers, ranchers, butchers, Carthage, Catalonia </Td> </Tr> <P> The Passion of Saint Perpetua, Saint Felicitas, and their Companions is one of the oldest and most notable early Christian texts . It survives in both Latin and Greek forms, and purports to contain the actual prison diary of the young mother and martyr Perpetua . Scholars generally believe that it is authentic although in the form we have it may have been edited by others . The text also purports to contain, in his own words, the accounts of the visions of Saturus, another Christian martyred with Perpetua . An editor who states he was an eyewitness has added accounts of the martyrs' suffering and deaths . Catalogued by the Bollandists as BHL 6633 - 6636, BHG 1482 </P> <P> Perpetua and Felicity (believed to have died in 203 AD) were Christian martyrs of the 3rd century . Vibia Perpetua was a married noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant she was nursing . Felicity, a slave imprisoned with her and pregnant at the time, was martyred with her . They were put to death along with others at Carthage in the Roman province of Africa . </P>

Who wrote the passion of ss perpetua and felicitas