St. Marina of Antioch (4th c.) is swallowed and
exploded from the dragon’s belly at the same time.
According to the version of the story in
Golden Legend, she was a native of "Antioch" and she was the daughter
of a pagan priest named Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after her birth,
Margaret was nursed by a pious woman five or six leagues from Antioch. Having
embraced Christianity and consecrated her virginity to God, she was disowned by
her father, adopted by her nurse and lived in the country keeping sheep with
her foster mother (in what is now Turkey). Olybrius, Governor of the Roman
Diocese of the East, asked to marry her but with the price of her renunciation
of Christianity. Upon her refusal she was cruelly tortured, during which
various miraculous incidents occurred. One of these involved being swallowed by
Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she
carried irritated the dragon's innards.
0 comments:
Post a Comment