Saints Perpetua and Felicity Plaque
- Solid Bronze Plaque
- Large (8 x 6.5 inches)
- Hangs Easily on the Wall
- Made in Germany
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Product Description
This is our beautiful Saints Perpetua and Felicity Plaque. Saints Perpetua and Felicity were martyred c. 203 a.d. in Carthage, North Africa. When they were martyred together, Perpetua was a married noblewoman and young mother, only 22 years old and still nursing her infant (as depicted on the plaque), while Felicity, her slave, was seven months pregnant. This bronze plaque is an especially fitting gift for a confirmation, first communion, a birthday, and the feastday of Perpetua and Felicity on March 7th.
A Solid Bronze Wall Plaque
Measuring 7.9 x 6.3 inches – this plaque hangs with ease on the wall in home or office. A master bronze-smith of world renown designed and realized this solid bronze plaque in Germany. This is a most fitting gift for that special “Perpetua” or “Felicity” in your life!
Mistress and Slave in Life – Sisters and Friends in Death
Saint Felicity (in German, Felizitas) and Perpetua are depicted on this plaque. The wild cow which seriously wounded them during their martyrdom is in the lower right corner of the plaque. Perpetua and Felicity are a familiar pairing, always mentioned together in the First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass of the Roman Rite. Inseparable in life as mistress and slave, both young mothers, inseparable in death as sisters and friends, martyrs for their Christian faith.
From the First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass (Latin rite):
For ourselves, too, we ask some share in the fellowship of your apostles and martyrs, with John the Baptist, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia and all the saints. Though we are sinners, we trust in your mercy and love. Do not consider what we truly deserve, but grant us your forgiveness. Through Christ our Lord.
from “The Passion of St. Perpetua, St. Felicitas, and their Companion”:
The day of their triumph being come, they went out of the prison to go to the amphitheatre. Joy sparkled in their eyes, and appeared in all their gestures and words. Perpetua walked with a composed countenance and easy pace, as a woman cherished by Jesus Christ, with her eyes modestly cast down: Felicitas went with her, following the men, not able to contain her joy. When they came to the gate of the amphitheatre the guards would have given them, according to custom, the superstitious habits with which they adorned such as appeared at these sights. For the men, a red mantle, which was the habit of the priests of Saturn: for the women, a little fillet round the head, by which the priestesses of Ceres were known. The martyrs rejected those idolatrous ceremonies; and, by the mouth of Perpetua, said, they came thither of their own accord on the promise made them that they should not be forced to any thing contrary to their religion. The tribune then consented that they might appear in the amphitheatre habited as they were. Perpetua sung, as being already victorious…
In the meantime, Perpetua and Felicitas had been exposed to a wild cow; Perpetua was first attacked, and the cow having tossed her up, she fell on her back. Then putting herself in a sitting posture, and perceiving her clothes were torn, she gathered them about her in the best manner she could, to cover herself, thinking more of decency than her sufferings. Getting up, not to seem disconsolate, she tied up her hair, which was fallen loose, and perceiving Felicitas on the ground much hurt by a toss of the cow, she helped her to rise. They stood together, expecting another assault from the beasts, but the people crying out that it was enough, they were led to the gate Sanevivaria, where those that were not killed by the beasts were dispatched at the end of the shows by the confectores. Perpetua was here received by Rusticus, a catechumen, who attended her. This admirable woman seemed just returning to herself out of a long ecstasy, and asked when she was to fight the wild cow. Being told what had passed, she could not believe it till she saw on her body and clothes the marks of what she had suffered, and knew the catechumen. With regard to this circumstance of her acts, St. Austin cries out, “Where was she when assaulted and torn by so furious a wild beast, without feeling her wounds, and when, after that furious combat, she asked when it would begin? What did she, not to see what all the world saw? What did she enjoy who did not feel such pain. By what love, by what vision, by what potion was she so transported out of herself, and as it were divinely inebriated, to seem without feeling in a mortal body?” She called for her brother, and said to him and Rusticus, “Continue firm in the faith, love one another, and be not scandalized at our sufferings.” All the martyrs were now brought to the place of their butchery. But the people, not yet satisfied with beholding blood, cried out to have them brought into the middle of the amphitheatre, that they might have the pleasure of seeing them receive the last blow. Upon this, some of the martyrs rose up, and having given one another the kiss of peace, went of their own accord into the middle of the arena; others were dispatched without speaking, or stirring out of the place they were in. St. Perpetua fell into the hands of a very timorous and unskillful apprentice of the gladiators, who, with a trembling hand, gave her many slight wounds, which made her languish a long time. Thus, says St. Austin, did two women, amidst fierce beasts and the swords of gladiators, vanquish the devil and all his fury.
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Additional Information
| Weight | 2.75 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 10 × 8 × 2 in |
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