Perpetua (2020)

This is based on a true story. The events unfolding in 203 A.D. in the Roman Province of Carthage. A young girl of nobility, from the House of Perpetua, is in training to convert to Christianity. As a 'catechumen', she is not yet Baptized. Under current Roman law, catechumens are subject to arrest and forced to undergo a 'sacrifice' renouncing Christian faith and attesting loyalty to Roman deities and Caesar. If refused, death awaits them in the arena. Vibia Perpetua, and her slave, Falicitus, are arrested at her brother's Baptism and taken to prison. She has her baby son with her. Visits by her father fail to convince her to make the sacrifice and she is put on trial under Procurator Hilarianus. Even he pleads with her to return to Roman beliefs for the sake of her father, an important business exporter of wheat. Failing this, she, and Falicitus are sentenced to death. She remains steadfast in her faith.