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" Perpetua, however, had yet to taste more pain. She screamed as she was struck on the bone; then she took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit,... "
Butler's Lives of the Saints - Pągina 64
per Alban Butler - 1995 - 293 pągines
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Women: Models of Liberation

Marie Anne Mayeski - 1988 - 256 pągines
...ribs, took the gladiator's trembling hand and guided it to her throat. Perhaps it was that so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not have been slain had she not herself willed it. 39. 0 brave and fortunate martyrs, truly called and...
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Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions: Ancient, Medieval ...

Kari Elisabeth Bųrresen, Kari Vogt - 1993 - 374 pągines
...stressed when Perpétua guides the gladiator's sword at the end of her Passio: "It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself was willing" (fortasse tantafemina aliter non potuisset occidi, quae...
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God's Self-confident Daughters: Early Christianity and the Liberation of Women

Anne Jensen - 1996 - 384 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. (21/R)88 Albert Ehrhard has rightly said: "This document...
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Tradition & Diversity: Christianity in a World Context to 1500

Karen Louise Jolly - 1997 - 588 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you...
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Christianity and the Roman Empire: Background Texts

Ralph Martin Novak - 2001 - 351 pągines
...ribs, took the gladiator's trembling hand and guided it to her throat. Perhaps it was that so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not have been slain had she not herself willed it. O brave and fortunate martyrs, truly called and chosen...
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill

Jessica Stern - 2009 - 402 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator, and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing."21 Christian martyrs' refusal to back down was seen...
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Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook

Ross Shepard Kraemer - 2004 - 526 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you...
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Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation

William C. Placher - 2005 - 492 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you...
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Butler's Saint for the Day

Alban Butler, Paul Burns - 2007 - 660 pągines
...sword struck Perpetua on a bone, and she screamed in agony, then guided the sword to the right place: "perhaps such a woman, feared as she was by the unclean...spirit, could not die unless she herself had willed it," the eyewitness comments. The bodies of the martyrs were buried in the Basilica Majorum in Carthage,...
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Death in Ancient Rome

Catharine Edwards, Reader in Classics and Ancient History Catharine Edwards - 2007 - 316 pągines
...took the trembling hand of the young gladiator and guided it to her throat. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing. (Perp. 21.9-10) As in the case of the matron described...
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