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Marina - ܡܪܝܢܐ

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After her mother died, Marina entered the monastery with her father. She disguised herself as a man, Marinos. A woman blamed her for her pregnancy, and she was expelled from the monastery. She miraculously nursed the baby. Her sex was discovered after her death. Among the Syrians, she was venerated by the Maronites.

Names

  • ܡܪܝܢܐ1
  • Marina
  • Marinā
  • MARINA2
  • Marine (Marie)1
  • Maryānē1
  • St Marina6

Sex

female2

Notes

After her mother died, Marina entered the monastery with her father. She disguised herself as a man, Marinos. A woman blamed her for her pregnancy, and she was expelled from the monastery. She miraculously nursed the baby. Her sex was discovered after her death. Among the Syrians, she was venerated by the Maronites.
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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 3227895016841919. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 296. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 690-97. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: VIIIp: 1165-70. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Sebastian P. Brock, St Marina and Satan: A Syriac Dialogue Poem, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 5 (2008): 35–57. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 6 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Marina