Vision of Perpetua in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity

Record summary

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity includes visions attributed to Perpetua during imprisonment, including a symbolic contest with an Egyptian opponent and a vision of her deceased brother Dinocrates. The text is a major early Christian witness to gendered religious authority, martyr memory, dreams, and imagined postmortem states. Scholars debate the extent of Perpetua’s own authorship, later editorial shaping, and the relationship between visionary symbolism and Roman martyr-genre conventions. It is an ancient literary and devotional source, not independently verified evidence of supernatural travel.