On this date in the year 203, two North African women, Perpetua and Felicity, were martyred at Carthage along with three Christian men, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Revocatus. All five were thrown to the beasts in the arena for the sport of the pagan crowd. The three men faced a bear, a leopard and a wild boar; the two women faced a rabid bull. After being mauled by the animals, the five were put to death with the sword by the Roman soldiers. "They were killed with the sword...of whom the world was not worthy." (Heb. 11:37-38)
Perpetua, the noble;
Felicity, her slave:
They would not turn from Jesus
And so their lives they gave!
May we, who trust in Jesus,
By word and deed proclaim
A faith that will not ever
Renounce His saving Name.
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