What's The Difference Between Felicity And Perpetua

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In early Christianity, the saint was the highest honors that could possibly be bestowed onto a woman. The women who were granted the title of saint were those who not only possessed the qualities of a good christian but the people who took action, that had a profound effect, in the name of their religion. With that being said, those who received sanctity didn’t necessarily fit the same mold. Two very interesting examples of how contrasting actions had the ability to lead an individual to be somewhat immortalized in sainthood are the stories of Saint Balthild as well as Perpetua and Felicity. One of the things that was most noticeable between the two passages was that perpetua and felicity was written by Perpetua herself while the story of

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