Страдание святого мученика Марина

The holy martyr of Christ Marinus, being a Christian and seeing how the pagans sacrificed not only dumb animals and birds, but even people, to their idols, was inflamed with Divine jealousy and, at a time when a holiday was being celebrated in honor of soulless idols, he went to the place where they were making sacrifices, and destroyed the altars, and trampled the victims on them with his feet. At the same time, he denounced the wicked priests and confessed himself to be a Christian, saying: – I believe in Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who created heaven and earth, the sea and everything that is in them. For this, the pagans, seizing him, first beat him with sticks, and then began to hit him on the mouth with stones, knocking out his teeth, and dragging him by his hair along the ground. After all this, the holy martyr was tied up and brought to the ruler of the region, by whose command, after various tortures, his head was cut off with a sword. You might be interested in: