Agia Marina celebrates July 17. How did he defeat the wicked one? 1′

Agia Marina celebrates July 17. How did he defeat the wicked one? 1′

Η Agia Marina was born in Antioch of Pisidia, in the years of the emperor Claudius II, in 270 AD.

A few days after her birth, her mother died, and her father, Hades, who was a priest of idols, entrusted her to a Christian woman, from whom Marina was taught Christ.

When she turned 15, she revealed to her father that she was a Christian. Surprised by what he heard, he deleted it from his child with hatred.

After a while, the prefect Olymbrios found out about Marina and ordered her to be interrogated. When he saw her in front of him, he admired her beauty and tried to convince her in every way to deny Christ and become his wife. In vain, though.

Agia Marina in every effort of Olympus opposed the phrase: "I am a Christian". Then the cruel prefect ordered her to be laid on the ground, and cruelly ravaged her with sticks so that the ground turned red from the blood that ran. Then, while she was bleeding, he hung her for a long time and then imprisoned her.

In fact, the following happened inside the prison: the devil, transformed into a wild dragon, tried to make the saint afraid.

But Agia Marina prayed to God and immediately the dragon changed form and became a black dog and then the saint grabbed a hammer and struck him on the head and back humiliated him.

When he examined her for the second time and found that the faith of Agia Marina was immovable in Christ, tdid not burn with lighted candles.

But her wounds were miraculously healed, and as a result many in attendance became Christians. In the face of this danger, the prefect finally beheaded Marina, who thus received the indestructible crown of eternal glory.

Her holy relics were kept in Constantinople until her first conquest by the Latins, in 1204 AD, while according to other sources they were found until 908 AD. in Antioch and then transported to Italy.

Today, the holy relics of Agia Marina are kept in Athens, in a church that bears her name, while her hand has been transferred to the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.

Apolytikio of Agia Marina

Ἀνδρείαν καὶ φρόνησιν, σὺ κεκτημένη σεμνή, ἀνδρείως κατεπάτησας ὄφιν ἀρχέκακον, Μαρίνα πανεύφημε, ἤσχυνας Ὀλυμβρίου τᾶς πικρᾶς τιμωρίας, εὐφρανας Ἀσωμάτων τᾶς χορείας ἀθλοῦσα, διὸ ἀπαβ.

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