Saint Marina was born into the family of a pagan priest from the city of Antioch, in the center of the Roman Province of Pisidia in Asia Minor. She was raised by a wet nurse who lived on an estate owned by Marina’s mother, who died when the Saint was still an infant. From the nurse or from an unnamed man of God from the wanderers marina learned the basics of Christianity at the age of twelve.
After hearing the story of the conception and birth of Jesus Christ by the Most Holy Virgin, Marina’s faith in the Christian…
