Passion of Perpetua and Felicity: source notes

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Topic: afterlife

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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 an unbaptized dead child (to verify that he was unbaptized). This is a vision, not a doctrinal statement.
• Bears on: L2, L3
• Status: verified (English)