Catholic Caucus:Sts Perpetua and Felicity:Romans could not kill unborn babies

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[topher]

This article states that Roman Law forbid the taking of INNOCENT BLOOD -- Unborn Babies. For this reason, Perpetua and Felicity died at separate times as Felicity could not executed as long as she was pregnant.

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus.

... [Perpetua was executed first as Felicity could not be executed while she was pregnant...]

Meanwhile, Felicity was also in torment. It was against the law for pregnant women to be executed. To kill a child in the womb was shedding innocent and sacred blood. Felicity was afraid that she would not give birth before the day set for their martyrdom and her companions would go on their journey without her. Her friends also didn't want to leave so "good a comrade" behind.

Two days before the execution, Felicity went into a painful labor. The guards made fun of her, insulting her by saying, "If you think you suffer now, how will stand it when you face the wild beasts?" Felicity answered them calmly, "Now I'm the one who is suffering, but in the arena, another will be in me suffering for me because I will be suffering for him."

She gave birth to a healthy girl who was adopted and raised by one of the Christian women of Carthage.

[topher]

We are far more BARBARIC than the Romans for the TAKING OF SO MUCH INNOCENT BLOOD - 63 million have died because of Roe vs Wade in the USA.

[carikadon]

and they have ALL been replaced by third world illegal immigrants.

[Antoninus]

Awesome post. The account of the arrest and martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (early 3rd century AD) is thought to have been written, at least in part, by Perpetua herself--drawn from her own diary. She was an educated woman.

The Authentic Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas

[Democrat = party of treason]

Someone email this to Slo Joe...

[rx]

Child sacrifice was of the reasons the Romans kept waging war against Carthage in the three Punic Wars. (Psst! Carthage was heavily into child sacrifice which was only reasonably abhorrent to Romans.)

"Carthago delenda est!"   (Carthage must be destroyed!)

Carthage contained a significant and ruling community of Canaanite descendants, whom the biblical Moses warned must be eradicated after the Jews entered the promised land. The Jews fell short on that score and we've not heard the end of it any more than did the Romans. That satanic cult still plagues us as the globalist elites via child trafficking, ritual child abuse, adrenochrome, etc.

[Pajamajan]

Incredible that even the barbaric Roman Empire knew abortion was wrong.

What does it say about us, that our society embraces it?

On another point-I love the stories of the Saints. So powerful! It is one of the things I love about my Catholic faith.

I wish more people could hear these stories.

Also, this part of the account of St. Perpetua's execution seems to be particularly meaningful, given our nation's Constitutional promise of freedom of religion:

When those at the arena tried to force Perpetua and the rest to dress in robes dedicated to their gods, Perpetua challenged her executioners. "We came to die out of our own free will so we wouldn't lose our freedom to worship our God. We gave you our lives so that we wouldn't have to worship your gods." She and the others were allowed to keep their clothes.

Thank you for sharing this.

[Campion]

Well, sure, but that was 350 years before the events described in the OP. The Third (and final) Punic War was 149 BC, Perpetua and Felicity were martyred around 203 AD. Carthage by that time was a thoroughly Roman city, and the Canaanite/Phoenician influence was long gone.

[rx]

What I pointed to was a relevant, enduring Roman tradition and mindset. Even now, most have heard, "Carthago delenda est," even if it's difficult to interpolate or comprehend "the rest of the story," with just a couple years of Latin under one's belt.

[GingisK]

Our civilization is indeed more barbaric than during the Roman Empire. Amazing as it seems, all of our leaders are crazier than any of those in Roman times.

Even Anne Bonny, a famous pirate in the early 1700s was not executed because she was pregnant. (She was never hanged because she escaped.) In olden days it was common for executions to wait until after childbirth.

[heartwood]

The Romans routinely exposed unwanted or sickly babies. The demand for an abortifacient plant of the genus Silphium was so high that it became extinct.

One ancient historian noted that only the Jews, out of all the peoples, did not expose their children.