A Brief Biography Of Cecilia

The beauty and culture of the Dominican Republic has changed and evolved drastically through out the years. Unfortunately, the Dominican Republic also known as the DR or Republica Domicana to its natives, was ruled by an oppressive dictator from 1930 until 1961. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina was his name and manipulation was his game. He ruled by fear and held a tight grip on the civilians of the Dominican Republic. Trujillo ingrained in their homes, schools, and churches that there is only God and Trujillo. Anyone who tried to speak out would be dealt with violently. Trujillo did not stop one driven young lady of the Mirabal family, whose name is Minerva. Minerva Mirabal is the boldest sister out of

In the source “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas,” the narrative of a few early Christians who died for their beliefs is told. The two martyred women, named Perpetua and Felicitas, along with a few other followers of the religion were imprisoned because they identified themselves as Christians and refused to offer sacrifice to the Roman Emperor. The Christians were sentenced to death by beast for this. The source illustrate the problems Christians had in navigating the cultural realities of life in the Roman empire. This can be observed along with the struggles involved in class, family, and gender.

Saint Gemma Galgani was born on March 12, 1878 in Lucca, Italy. She was baptized the day after she was born. Her mother named her Gemma because she wanted her to be a “gem” of Heaven. Gemma loved to pray at a little age. Her mother took Gemma and her siblings to mass daily and confession often. She showed Gemma the crucifix frequently and taught her that Jesus loves us and died for us on the cross. Gemma also attended school which was taught be the Sisters of Saint Zita. She was quiet, but still an excellent student. Gemma prepared for her First Holy Communion. She said it was one of the greatest days of her life. Then a day came where she felt no joy or a yearning for Heaven or prayer. She was going through a period of spiritual dryness. Gemma continued to pray and love. Once this difficult period was over, her relationship with God was much stronger. Then, her mother became sick when Gemma was

Violet Weston is a character from a play by Tracy Letts called August: Osage County. Violet Weston is a sixty five year old woman living outside Pawhuska Oklahoma. She is a middle class woman married to Beverly Weston who is a sixty nine year old man. He is award winning poet and an alcoholic. They have been married for many years. Violet and her husband have three daughters. Her eldest daughter is Barbara Fordham. Barbara is married to Bill Fordham and together have a daughter named Jean, Violets only granddaughter. Barbara and Bill are going through some rough patches in their marriage and are currently separated. Ivy Weston is Violets middle daughter who lives close by. She is very personal with her love life. The youngest daughter is Karen Weston, who lives in Florida with her fiancé Steve Heidebrecht.

Perpetua was a true woman of faith. Perpetua was a twenty-two-year-old, a Christian, a mother, a daughter, and a martyr. The story of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas is the story of the execution of Perpetua and her Christian companions. This story reveals the difficulty Christian’s went through during this time, the chasm between the Roman and Christian communities, and the experience of Christian persecution for going against the Roman cultural norms. Perpetua’s personal prison diary expresses her extremely deep faith in Christianity. Perpetua and her Christian companions were prepared to be tortured, publicly humiliated, and in the end, lose their lives for their faith. Perpetua had a young baby still nursing her and Felicitas was

Catherine sought Christ's hand in marriage and appealed to the Virgin Mary to grant her this connection. She prayed, “O most blessed and holy virgin…I pray to you that out of your ineffable goodness…you'll deign to grant me this great grace ¾ to give me as a Husband Him whom I desire with all the power of my soul, your most holy son, our one Lord Jesus Christ; and I promise Him and you that I will never choose myself any other husband, and will always do all I can to keep my virginity unspotted.” (qtd. in Raymond of Capua 31). In order to preserve her virginity, she once wished to take the habit of the Order of the Preaching Friars based on a story she once heard about a woman pretending to be a man and becoming a monk in order to avoid marriage (Gardner 5).

Contrary to popular belief, none of the victims were burned at the stake. The reason is because English law only allowed death by burning to be used against men who committed high treason and only after they had been hanged until almost dead, quartered and drawn. The English considered it an unacceptable death for women since it involved nudity.

In an era of male domination and patriarchy in the Roman society, St. Perpetua’s chronicles in Passion stands out to many historians. St. Perpetua demonstrated her deep faith in Christianity by using it as a means to break through social norms for women imposed by the Roman Empire. Although she is able to overcome the social norms in many occasions of her time in prison, one of her last acts falls right back into societies expectations because of vanity. This is seen when she feels the need to fix her hair before she takes her last breath. Having come from a wealthy family it came to a great surprise to many that she was willing to cut all ties with her family in order to devote her life to God through the Christian faith and oppose the Roman

Saint Catherine is important to Christianity, because she is credited with bringing over two-hundred soldiers and members of the emperor 's family, along with fifty pagan philosophers, to Christ. She was sentenced to die by the spiked wheel, but when she touched it, it shattered, and she was then beheaded. The life of Saint Catherine teaches us that pursuing Christ may not bring riches or earthly honors, but it will bring Heavenly riches, and she is a symbol of perseverance and good.

The King however yelled at her, accusing her of adultery and witchcraft. I was ordered to dispose of this creature, this demon. So in the most Christian of ways that I could, in order to save its soul, I burnt the child on a cross after blessing it with holy water. I recited the Lord’s Prayer and blessed the child so that it may be free from its mother’s and father’s sins.

Quote: “Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in the deserts, but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of striagthairded, thin-lipped, high-nose bones white seraphs” (145)

I was born in the Dominican Republic my parents named me Maria Esther, with many associate to be spanish but the true is originated from Hebrew. I'm 22 years old and too mature for my age. I'm the older of five kids, between my baby sister are 7 years apart, with made me to be responsible and not able to feel classes or choose to do wild and crazy things . growing up my family movie five time alway in urban area. My siblings and I grow up with many friends in different places. My sister and I attend private school until our 8 and 7 years old we started at the age of 2. I grow up in a catholic family, but I always was to curious at early age I started studying others religion what lead me to change my religion domination. My skin color is light brown. When people see me for

By comparing the following primary sources, “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas” and “The Rape of Lucretia,” historians can learn about the archetypes of Roman society. The former text, written in 202 or 203 CE, is a prison diary of a young martyr in Carthage. The protagonist, Perpetua, is arrested and sentenced to death because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. Despite having a newborn and hearing consistent outcry from her father to renounce her faith, Perpetua refused to absolve from Christianity. Prior to her execution, she and her comrades experience visions of entering Heaven and specifics of how their deaths would be bestowed upon them. These visions provided comfort to the prisoners because they legitimized the belief in God, as well as sanctioned the power of God to perform miracles. As God willed it, Perpetua, the “most valiant and blessed martyrs”, was ultimately executed in the arena. The latter text, written in 17 AD by Roman historian, Livy, is a story of propaganda about the rape of a honorable woman named Lucretia. Lucretia, Tarquinius Conlatinus’s wife, was the quintessential example of a Roman martyr. She was applauded for her modest, hospitable, and dutiful nature. Tragically, she was forcibly raped by the emperor’s son, Sextus Tarquinius. Consequently, Brutus, Tarquinius, and Lucretia’s father, did not object while witnessing Lucretia commit suicide in order to preserve her and her family’s

It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his

Gwendolyn Brooks was a black poet from Kansas who wrote in the early twentieth century. She was the first black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Her writings deal mostly with the black experience growing up in inner Chicago. This is the case with one of her more famous works, Maud Martha. Maud Martha is a story that illustrates the many issues that a young black girl faces while growing up in a ‘white, male driven’ society. One aspect of Martha that is strongly emphasized on the book is her low self-image and lack of self-esteem. Martha feels that she is inferior for several reasons, but it is mainly the social pressures that she faces and her own blackness that contribute to these feelings of inferiority. It is