We were in the hands of our persecutors, when my father, out of the affection he bore me, made new efforts to shake my resolution. I said to him: ‘Can that vessel, which you see, change its name?’ He said: ‘No.’ I replied: ‘Nor can I call myself any other than I am, a Christian - Saint Perpetua
Neither can I call myself anything else than what I am, a Christian.
This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: if I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for Him that I die.
Now it is I who suffer what I am suffering, then, there will be another in me who will suffer for me, because I will be suffering for Him - Saint Felicity.
