A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ From the Death of Saint John
A History of the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ From the Death of Saint John
Thomas Wimberley Mossman
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361 received Thekla.^ For Tryplioena's daughter, Falconilla, was dead, and she had said to her mother in a dream — ' Mother, thou shalt have this stranger, Thekla, in my stead, and she will pray for me, that I may be transferred to the place of the just. ' '^ • This was -what was called ' libera custodia. ' ^ There is a parallel passage to this in the Acts of Saiuts Perpetua and Felicifas, a document almost universally admitted to be not later than the beginning of the third century. Perpetua, ...a lady of Car- thage, was in prison on account of being a Christian. In the dungeon she had a dream, in which she saw her brother, Dinocrates, coming out of a dark place, where there were many others, very hot and thirsty, his face dirty and pale, and the wound in his face, of which he had died. To proceed with what she saw in her dream, in her own words — 'Dinocrates had been my brother in the flesh, who died when he was seven years old. Tlie cause of his death was a cancer in the face, which had made him a horrible spectacle.
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