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Hey there, it's sprouts. Today is Thursday, March 7th, 2019. It is also the feast day of two

wonderful early Christian martyrs, St. Puppetua and St. Felicity. This week on the Catholic

Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about some remarkable saints

that will give us a little bit of motivation as we enter Lent.

And we also have been talking about our church's transition from ordinary time into Lent.

And of course, today we are in Lent.

So the saints that we are going to be talking about and drawing some inspiration from

are the saints we are celebrating today, St. Perpetua and St. Felicity.

Way back in the early days of the church, St. Perpetua and St. Felicity lived in Northern Africa. And like places where the faith

spread, the faith in Jesus Christ was not very well accepted. People that believed in Jesus were

persecuted and even killed. St. Perpetua and St. Felicity were two of those people. What's interesting

about these two is that they were mothers, and they have since been called the patron saints

of mothers. At the time, St. Perpetua was a noble woman, meaning that her family was pretty rich and that they

had a good position. Perpetua's father was very alarmed when she converted to Christianity and

began to call herself a Christian. But Perpetua said to him, well, if I am a Christian,

if I do love Jesus Christ, how can I be called anything else?

Her faith was the absolute foundation of her life. She was arrested, however, for being a Christian

with several other women, and one of the other women that she was arrested with was a slave.

Her name was Felicity. Both of the other women that she was arrested with was a slave. Her name was Felicity.

Both of the women were married at the time. St. Perpetua had one child who was very young,

and Felicity was eight months pregnant when she was arrested.

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