“It will all happen in the prisoner’s dock as God wills, for you may be sure that we are not left to ourselves but are all in his power.” We have little idea what brought Perpetua to faith in Christ, or how long she had been a Christian, or how she lived her Christian life. Thanks to her diary, and that of another prisoner, we have some idea of her last days—an ordeal that so impressed the famous Augustine that he preached four sermons about her death.