to answer prayers in visions—but again these may be theological ideas that were widely shared among the African Christians. A telltale incident occurs at the time of Perpetua’s baptism in prison. Able to request one baptismal favor from the Holy Spirit, she chooses sufferentiam carnis, patient endurance in the flesh—a theme of Tertullian’s but also, as we have seen, an emphasis of the North African church (3.5).56 How, in the world of Perpetua, does patient endurance move from the realm of ideas