Perpetua and Felicity: the young mothers martyred in Carthage in 203
In 203, a young noblewoman named Perpetua and an enslaved woman named Felicity were executed in the arena at Carthage, in today's Tunisia, for refusing to…
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“Our heart is restless until it rests in you”: Augustine of Hippo, the African who shaped Western Christianity
Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria. After a restless youth, he converted to Christianity in 386 and became Bishop of…