A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Felicitas
FELICITAS,
An illustrious Roman lady, who lived in 162, during the persecution carried on against the christians by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a devout Christian. She had also brought up her seven sons in the same faith. They were seized, and Felicitas was threatened with her own death and that of all her family, if she did not give up her religion; but she was inflexible, and the sons also remaining stedfast, they all suffered cruel deaths, the mother being executed last