St. Perpetua and Felicity illustration is finished!
Perpetua and Felicity are 3rd-century North African paired saints who were executed together for their Christian faith. Some consider them lesbian saints or patrons of same-sex couples. The history professor John Boswell named Perpetua and Felicity as one of the three primary pairs of same-sex saints in the early church in his book "Same Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe". When Perpetua's father found out she was a Christian, he was then on making sure that Perpetua was arrested. There she was allowed to still take care of her newborn baby and meet Felicity who was pregnant. The reason why they weren't immediately executed was due to Felicity being still pregnant, and during Roman times it wasn't allowed to execute pregnant women. During their time in prison Perpetua had alot of dreams. One that she transfroms into a man and another where se sees the ladder to heaven and on this ladder there is a snake, looking up to the heavens but then looking at Perpetua. Perpetua interpert this as her and Felicity's death will be painful but they will go to heaven after it. Once Felicity gave birth they were sent to a public arena in Carthage. In their last moment, Perpetua kissed Felicity before them being put to death by trampling by a cattle.
