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" Sanevivaria, where those that were not killed by the beasts were despatched at the end of the shows by the confectores. Perpetua was here received by Rusticus, a catechumen, who attended her. This admirable woman seemed just returning to herself out of... "
The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints ... - Page 72
by Alban Butler - 1798
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The History of the Church of Christ: The first three centuries

Joseph Milner - 1809 - 518 pages
...they will expose us to the cow ;" she had been, it seems, insensible of what had passed, nor could believe it till she saw on her body and clothes the marks of her sufferings. She caused her brother to be called, and addressing herself to him and Rusticus, she...
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Monumental Pillars; or, a collection of remarkable instances of the judgment ...

Thomas Young (minister of Zion Chapel, Margate.) - 1818 - 420 pages
...when they will expose us to the cow." She had been, it seems, insensible of what had passed, nor could believe it, till she saw on her body and clothes, the marks of her sufferings. She caused her brother to be called, and addressing herself to him and JKusticus, she...
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The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the ...

Joseph Milner - 1835 - 882 pages
...they will expose us to the cow :" — She had been, it seems, insensible of what had passed, nor could believe it till she saw on her body and clothes the marks of her sufferings. She caused her brother to be called, and addressing herself to him and Rusticus, she...
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints ..., Volume 3

Alban Butler - 1845 - 322 pages
...catechumen, who attended her. This admirable woman seemed just returning to herself out of a long ecstasy, and asked when she was to fight the wild cow. Being...beast, without feeling her wounds, and when after that furious combat, she asked when it would begin ? What did she, not to see what all the world saw ? What...
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Paganism, Popery, and Christianity: Or, The Blessing of an Open Bible, as ...

Vincent L. Milner - 1855 - 444 pages
...they will expose us to the cow ;" — She had been, it seems, insensible of what had passed, nor could believe it till she saw on her body and clothes the marks of her sufferings. She caused her brother to be called, and addressing herself to him and Rusticus, she...
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume 1

Alban Butler - 1857 - 950 pages
...her. This admirable woman seemed just returning to herself out of a (1) Analect. t. iii. p. 403. QQ long ecstacy, and asked when she was to fight the...beast, without feeling her wounds, and when, after that furious combat, she asked when it would begin ? What did she, not to see what all the world saw ? What...
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume 3

Alban Butler - 1866 - 320 pages
...catechumen, who attended her. This admirable woman seemed just returning to herself out of a long ecstasy, and asked when she was to fight the wild cow. Being...of what she had suffered, and knew the catechumen. Wilh regard to this circumstance of her acts, St. Austin cries out, "Where was she when assaulted and...
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 2

Sabine Baring-Gould - 1879 - 536 pages
...death of Polyxena, by Talthybius, in the Hecuba, "She even in death showed much care to fall decently." she saw on her body and clothes the marks of what she had suffered. She called for her brother, and said to him and Rusticus, " Continue firm in the faith, love one another,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 43

1879 - 978 pages
...entirely unconscious of all that had occurred, and she could not believe the account of what had happened till she saw on her body and clothes the marks of what had taken place. St. Austin, relating this, cries out: "Where was she when assaulted and torn by the...
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the catechism of perseverance

monsignor gaume - 1881 - 764 pages
...Being told of what had occurred, she would not believe it, until she recognised the catechumen, and saw on her body and clothes the marks of what she had suffered. "Ah ! where was she then,' ' cries out St. Augustine, speaking of this circumstance; " where wag she...
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