16/7/2021 : Αγία Μαρίνα η Μεγαλομάρτυς | Εσπερινός και Νυχτερινή Θεία Λειτουργία

Γεννήθηκε στὴν Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Πισιδίας, στὰ χρόνια του αὐτοκράτορα Κλαυδίου τοῦ Β’, τὸ 270 μ.Χ. Λίγες μέρες μετὰ τὴ γέννησή της, ἡ μητέρα της πέθανε, καὶ ὁ πατέρας της Αἰδέσιος, ποὺ ἦταν Ἱερέας τῶν εἰδώλων, τὴν ἀνέθεσε σὲ μία χριστιανὴ γυναίκα, ἀπὸ τὴν ὁποία ἡ Μαρίνα διδάχθηκε τὸν Χριστό.

Ὅταν ἔγινε 15 χρονῶν, ἀποκαλύπτει στὸν πατέρα της ὅτι εἶναι χριστιανή. Ἔκπληκτος αὐτὸς ἀπ’ αὐτὸ ποὺ ἄκουσε, μὲ μίσος τὴν διέγραψε ἀπὸ παιδί του. Τὸ γεγονὸς αὐτό, μαθεύτηκε ἀμέσως καὶ ἔτσι ὁ ἡγεμόνας τῆς περιοχῆς διέταξε νὰ τὴν συλλάβουν καὶ νὰ τὴν φέρουν ἐνώπιόν του. Ἀμέσως θαμπώθηκε ἀπὸ τὴν ὀμορφιά της. Τὴν ρώτησε ποὶα εἶναι καὶ ποὶα εἶναι ἡ πίστη της καὶ αὐτὴ τοῦ ἀπάντησε ὅτι ὀνομάζεται Μαρίνα καὶ εἶναι χριστιανὴ καὶ ὅτι εἶναι γέννημα θρέμμα τῆς Πισιδίας. Τότε ὁ ἡγεμόνας προσπάθησε νὰ τὴν πείσει νὰ ἀρνηθεῖ τὴν πίστη της. Ἡ Ἁγία ὅμως δὲν δέχτηκε.

Γιὰ τὸ λόγο αὐτὸ ὁ τύραννος πρόσταξε καὶ τὴν ὑπέβαλαν σὲ βασανιστήρια φρικτὰ καὶ ἀφοῦ τὶς κατέσκισαν τὶς σάρκες, τὴν ἔριξαν στὴν φυλακή.

Μέσα στὴν φυλακὴ μάλιστα συνέβη τὸ ἑξῆς: ὁ διάβολος μεταμορφωμένος σὲ ἄγριο δράκοντα, προσπάθησε νὰ κάνει τὴν Ἁγία νὰ φοβηθεῖ. Αὐτὴ ὅμως προσευχήθηκε στὸν Θεὸ καὶ ἀμέσως ὁ δράκοντας ἄλλαξε μορφὴ καὶ ἔγινε ἕνας μαῦρος σκύλος καὶ τότε ἡ Ἁγία ἅρπαξε ἕνα σφυρὶ καὶ χτυπώντας τον στὸ κεφάλι καὶ τὴν ράχη τὸν ταπείνωσε. Στὴ συνέχεια ὁ ἡγεμόνας διέταξε καὶ τὴν ἔφεραν πάλι μπροστά του. Παρὰ τὶς πιέσεις του, ἡ ἁγία παρέμεινε ἀκλόνητη.
Ἔτσι ὑποβλήθηκε σὲ νέα βασανιστήρια μέχρι ποὺ ἀποκεφαλίστηκε λαμβάνοντας τὸν στέφανο τοῦ μαρτυρίου.

The Holy Great Martyr Marina was born in Asia Minor, in the city of Antioch of Pisidia (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. During the time of the persecution against Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305), when she was fifteen years old, Saint Marina was arrested and locked up in prison. With firm trust in the will of God and His help, the young prisoner prepared for her impending fate.

The governor Olymbrios, charmed with the beautiful girl, tried to persuade her to renounce the Christian Faith and become his wife. But the saint, unswayed, refused his offers. The vexed governor gave the holy martyr over to torture. Having beaten her fiercely, they fastened the saint with nails to a board and tore at her body with tridents. The governor himself, unable to bear the horror of these tortures, hid his face in his hands. But the holy martyr remained unyielding. Thrown for the night into prison, she was granted heavenly aid and healed of her wounds. They stripped her and tied her to a tree, then burned the martyr with fire. Barely alive, the martyr prayed: “Lord, You have granted me to go through fire for Your Name, grant me also to go through the water of holy Baptism.”

Hearing the word “water”, the governor gave orders to drown the saint in a large cauldron. The martyr besought the Lord that this manner of execution should become for her holy Baptism. When they plunged her into the water, there suddenly shone a light, and a snow-white dove came down from Heaven, bearing in its beak a golden crown. The fetters put upon Saint Marina came apart by themselves. The martyr stood up in the fount of Baptism glorifying the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Saint Marina emerged from the fount completely healed, without any trace of burns. Amazed at this miracle, the people glorified the True God, and many came to believe. This brought the governor into a rage, and he gave orders to kill anyone who might confess the Name of Christ. 15,000 Christians perished there, and the holy Martyr Marina was beheaded. The sufferings of the Great Martyr Marina were described by an eyewitness of the event, named Theotimos.

Up until the taking of Constantinople by Western crusaders in the year 1204, the relics of the Great Martyr Marina were in the Panteponteia monastery. According to other sources, they were located in Antioch until the year 908 and from there transferred to Italy. Now they are in Athens, in a church dedicated to the holy Virgin Martyr. Her venerable hand was transferred to Mount Athos, to the Batopedi monastery.

Ἀπολυτίκιον. Ἦχος πλ. α’. Τὸν συνάναρχον Λόγον.
Μνηστευθεῖσα τῷ Λόγῳ Μαρίνα ἔνδοξε, τῶν ἐπιγείων τὴν σχέσιν πᾶσαν κατέλιπες, καὶ ἐνήθλησας λαμπρῶς ὡς καλλιπάρθενος· τὸν γὰρ ἀόρατον ἐχθρόν, κατεπάτησας στερρῶς, ὀφθέντα σοι Ἀθληφόρε. Καὶ νῦν πηγάζεις τῷ κόσμῳ, τῶν ἰαμάτων τὰ χαρίσματα.
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