St Perpetua, Stained glass window, Christ church, St Leonards
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St Perpetua, Stained glass window, Christ church, St Leonards
Image: © Julian P Guffogg Taken: 6 Jan 2015
Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus. She refused to renounce her Christian faith. A vision, in which she saw herself ascending a ladder leading to green meadows, where a flock of sheep was browsing, assured her of her approaching martyrdom. For her unwillingness, she was sent to the public games in the amphitheatre. There, Perpetua was beheaded. The window is in memory of Mabel Caroline Batterham. The face is taken from a portrait of her.
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Image Location
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