Case file · Apparition / miracle
Perpetua's prison visions
Before she was executed in the amphitheatre of Carthage in March 203, the young noblewoman Vibia Perpetua wrote down visions: a ladder guarded by a dragon and a wrestling match against an Egyptian.
203 CE · 36.86, 10.32 · status: account
The account
Her prison diary, framed by an editor, is one of the earliest texts written by a Christian woman. She also saw her dead brother Dinocrates suffering and, after her prayers, healed.