ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 7th of March WELCOME! SAINT PERPETUA AND SAINT FELICITY, MARTYRS Saint Perpetua was 22, of a patrician family; Saint Felicity [Felicitas] was a slave: both were martyred in the public stadium at Carthage, in A.D. 203, during the persecution of Septimus Severus. PRAYER: Father, your love gave the saints Perpetua and Felicity courage to suffer a cruel martyrdom. By their prayers, help us to grow in love of you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. (🎨 Mosaic of St Perpetua) *** FROM THE BREVIARIUM ROMANUM: "Because it is for Christ that I suffer." Perpetua and Felicitas, with Revocatus, Saturnius, and Secundulus, were arrested in Africa during the persecution of Emperor Severus and thrown into a dungeon, where Satyrus was imprisoned with them. Since they were still catechumens, they were baptised there. Then they were condemn...