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Carthage, 203 AD — Vibia Perpetua, a 22-year-old nursing mother, keeps a diary in the condemned cell and leaves us the earliest surviving words of a Christian woman: the ladder vision, her prayers for her dead brother Dinocrates, Felicity’s childbirth in prison, and the day in the arena when she guided the gladiator’s sword to her own throat. AI Generated