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==Life==
Marina lived in what is now modern-day Pisidia, Turkey, in the early fourth century. Her father was a pagan priest, and her mother died in childbirth. The unwanted Marina was then left in the care of a nursemaid, who was later discharged of her duties and sent to work as a shepherdess. While still a teenager, Marina made a vow of perpetual chastity to God.
One day, while Marina was tending sheep, a Roman prefect attempted to seduce her. When she refused his advances, she was denounced as a Christian. Upon refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, she was subjected to various tortures, including being beaten with clubs and her skin being raked with iron combs. One rather interesting torment included plunging Marina into a cauldron of boiling water, out of which she came unharmed, singing God's praises.
Again, he appeared as a man, black as night. She seized his hair and beat him with a hammer until he left her sight. Again, he grabbed her and threatened to kill her if she would not stop praying. She whipped him, and finally a light appeared from Heaven in the form of a cross. A white dove told her to rejoice for she had vanquished the enemy, and she was completely healed.
== References External links==*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=102042 Greatmartyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia] ([[OCA]])*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=131 Marina the Great Martyr of Antioch] ([[GOARCH]])*[http://www.westsrbdio.org/prolog/my.html?month=July&day=17 The Holy Female Martyr Marina] (''[[Prologue of Ohrid]]'')*[http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/St_Marina.htm Great Martyr St Marina of Antioch] ([[GOAA]])*[http://www.stmarina.org/stmarina.htm St. Marina] ([[Coptic]])*[[w:Margaret the Virgin|''Margaret the Virgin'' at Wikipedia]]*[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/21sr.htm Margaret of Antioch]
[http[Category://www.stmarina.org/stmarina.htmMartyrs]] A Coptic Orthodox biography of the Virgin[[Category:Saints]][[Category:Byzantine Saints]][[Category:Ante-Nicene Saints]][[Category:4th-Martyr.century saints]]
[[Categoryes:SaintsMarina de Antioquía]][[Categoryro:MartyrsMarina din Antiohia Pisidiei]]