I found something interesting for Mormons.
So there is this early Christian text called Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity. Vibia Perpetua was a well educated noblewoman and Felicity was a slave woman. They were both converts to Christianity and for that they were executed in Carthage in military games, along with a few others, in the year 203. The text is generally considered by researchers to be historical, as in, Vibia Perpetua actually wrote it herself.
Perpetua was a visionary, and when she prayed she received visions. And one time in prison she prayed for her brother Dinocrates, who had died of cancer when he was seven. She then saw a vision of him and she was really distressed. Then she kept praying over the course of several days, and eventually received a new vision.
In the first vision Dinocrates is in a gloomy place, his face is all messed up from the cancer like it was when he died, his clothes are all raggedy, etc, and there is a pool of water with a high wall around that he can't reach to drink from.
In the second vision the place is no longer gloomy, his face has a healed scar where the wound was, his clothes are clean and good, etc. And the wall around the pool is now lower and there is a goblet he can use to drink. And he drinks and drinks and the goblet doesn't fail, and when he has had his fill, he goes to play joyously.
Catholics throughout history have had a hard time with this, because it seems like Perpetua was able to pray so hard that an unbaptised child was able to go to Heaven. A monk calles Renatus thought that maybe it means that unbaptised children do get to go to Paradise if not Heaven; Augustus was all like nah, Dinocrates must have been baptised as a child but then estranged from Christ due to his pagan father.
But in light of Mormon doctrine it is really beautiful. Perpetua was shown what the situation is like without the sacrifice of Christ (no access to the living waters, eternal suffering for innocent children) and then what it is with the sacrifice of Christ (innocent children under the age of accountability have access to the living water and shall not suffer). The vision was given her to comfort her in her worry over her unbaptised kid brother.
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You can read the entire text over at Wikisource. The text isn't fully written by Perpetua, there is an editor at the beginning and the end, and one of the male martyrs has one "chapter" (although there is some disagreement whether he actually wrote it or did the editor change one of Perpetua's visions to be given to a man for patriarchy reasons, lest it is only the woman who is visionary). The part about Dinocrates is in Argument II, but the whole text is really interesting and not very long. I think it could be extra interesting for many straight Mormon women, because Felicity is pregnant and Perpetua has a young child she is breastfeeding, so there are all sorts of very physical motherhood-related things in the story.
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