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Perpetua and Her Companions is a
mixed-media piece, a three-dimensional icon honoring the martyrs.
Perpetua, a young mother arrested in 202 and "condemned to the beasts" was
a visionary dreamer, a prophet, and a leader in the church at Carthage.
Still a catechumen at the time of her arrest, she just managed to be
baptized before her death. Her prison diary is the oldest extant piece of
work by a Christian woman writer. Her own writing and the account of her
death in the arena were read aloud and cherished in the North African
churches of late antiquity.
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