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Painting from Constantinople/Vatican Library.

A 573 cm × 397 cm (18 ft 10 in × 13 ft 0 in) Mosaic found in Libya in 1913 in the Villa Dar Buk Ammera. Four depictions of gladiators in the arena. The scenes in the piece show gladiators fighting other gladiators as well as fighting animals. The…

This picture shows the brooch that the Roman women wore on shoulders for robes. This brooch was useful in making robes look delicate.

Oil on canvas

This is a short animated film on the meaningful lives of Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicitas

English translation of the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, Translated by R.E. Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co.,…

English translation of the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas, Translated by H. Musurillo from the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Available on the From Jesus to Christ website.

According to legend, Saint Barbara was executed by her heathen father, Dioscorus, when she refused to recant her Christian faith. Luxuriously dressed, she seems here to calmly accept her fate as she kneels before Dioscorus, who raises his sword to…