09 Works, Today, July 17th, is Greatmartyr Marina’s day, her story in art #198

Greatmartyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch, in Pisidia, was born in southern Asia Minor, into the family of a pagan priest. In infancy she lost her mother, and her father gave her into the care of a nursemaid, who raised Marina in the Orthodox Faith. Upon learning that his daughter had become a Christian, the father angrily disowned her, adopted by her nurse, she lived in the country, keeping sheep with her foster mother…

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