What exhibits that persecuting Christians was more politics than real rejection of the religion was the fact that deacons were allowed to visit Perpetua in jail to console her and pray. If just the practice of Christianity had been illegal, the deacons would not have made it back out of the prison. Instead it seems that it was mostly the fervor and chaos that the Romans perceived Christianity caused that led them to condemning it.

A good example of a martyr would be Vibia Perpetua. She had just converted to Christianity when she was arrested with a group of people. They were sent to prison and the conditions were awful. It was hot, her family worried over her, her father was ready to disown her and she had just had a baby that needed to be cared for. Through all this she continued to affirm her faith. Even though her diaries state her worry for her child over and over again, and her father’s constant badgering to renounce her religion, she would not. Even though she and her friends knew the terrible way which they would be put to death, none of them would renounce. This behavior attracted the admiration of many people who were not Christian, including the warden who guarded them. The reasons she embraced Christianity to the death are not clear. Maybe Christianity was just like the mystery religions that gave people hope. Or maybe Christians were willing to martyr themselves because Jesus the founder of Christianity and the presumed Son

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