Saints Perpetua & Felicity: What I Learned in Seminary

About this episode

Fr. Chris Alar discusses the significance of Saints Perpetua and Felicity and their story's relevance today.

With so many Christian martyrs over the centuries, why do we remember these two and not many others? What really happened and how was one treated as the slave of the other? Join Fr. Chris Alar as he explains their incredible story and how it can help us today.

People in this episode

Host: Fr. Chris Alar

Topics covered

• Christian martyrs
• Perpetua and Felicity
• faith
• sacrifice
• Christian history

Keywords

• Christian martyrs
• Perpetua
• Felicity
• seminary
• faith
• sacrifice
• Christianity

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