Saint Perpetua

The poem investigates the possibilities of female heroism during the conflict between paganism and Christianity. The protagonist is the young Roman mother who became the Christian martyr known as Saint Perpetua . Her...

SFA published Vivia Perpetua : A Dramatic Poem of blank verse in five acts.

The Martyrdom of Perpetua, a modern English version of the third-century Passio Perpetuae et Felicitas, was published in the Visionary Women series, with introduction and commentary by SM .

This time MF 's approach to the issue of women's relations with the Church draws less on recent history and more on personal experience and her own thinking. It takes two to create a stigma...

In this first volume KT establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...

This genre seems almost impossible in the late twentieth century, but the authors believe that saints today are potentially spiritual resources whose presences through the traces they have left behind in the minds of the...