PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES
Photographs of Eastern Orthodox Christian women holding the icons of their patron saints.

Frederica Mathewes-Green (St. Felicity)
St. Felicity was martyred with St. Perpetua by Emperor Septimus Severus in 202 or 203. They were in a large group of Christians who had been rounded up and imprisoned. St. Felicity was a slave and was pregnant. They waited for her to give birth before they martyred her, but they made her watch her seven sons be martyred by various means before her eyes. St. Felicity gave birth to a girl, who was spirited off to be raised by Christians.

Frederica Mathewes-Green is an author, speaker, columnist, wife and mother of three who lives in Linthicum, Maryland.