Passion of Perpetua and Felicity: source notes

Back to notes index · conventions

Topic: afterlife

See afterlife reasoning.

AFT S1: Passion 2.3–4 (ch. 7–8 in other numbering)

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm
• Text: Perpetua prays for her dead brother Dinocrates and in a vision sees him refreshed: “Then I understood that he was translated from the place of punishment.”
• Context: Carthage, 203. A martyr’s prayer for her dead brother, aged seven. The text does not say whether he was baptized; Augustine notes that neither Perpetua ’nor whoever it was that wrote the account, say that the boy … died without baptism’ (On the Soul and its Origin I.12, verified, New Advent 15081). This is a vision, not a doctrinal statement.
• Bears on: L2, L3
• Status: verified (English)