The Holy Martyrs Marinus, Martha, Audifax, Habakkuk, Cyrenus,
Valentinus the Presbyter, Asterius, and many others with them at Rome.
During
the reign of the emperor Claudius II (268-270), St Marinus together
with his wife Martha and their sons Audifax and Habakkuk journeyed from
Persia to Rome, to pray at the graves of the holy Apostles Peter and
Paul. During this time fierce persecutions and executions befell the
Roman Church. St Marinus and his wife and sons helped Christians locked
up in the prisons, and also to request the bodies of executed martyrs.
At one of these jails they met a prisoner named Cyrenus and they helped
him, since he had endured many torments for faith in Christ.
The
persecution spread, and even more Christians were arrested. During this
time 260 Christians, among whom was the tribune Vlastus, had been sent
under the court sentence to dig ground along the Salerian Way, and were
executed by archers. When they learned about this vicious murder,
Marinus, his family, and the presbyter John went by night and took the
bodies of the martyrs to be buried in the catacombs. They returned later
to the prison where St Cyrenus was incarcerated, but did not find him.
He had been executed the day before and his body was thrown into the
Tiber River. Doing their holy duty, Sts Marinus and Martha and their
sons took the body of the holy martyr from the river and committed it to
the earth. The holy workers were among Christians, who continued
secretly to perform the divine services under the leadership of the holy
Bishop Callistus, and hid them from their pursuers.
In
consummation of their great charitable deeds the holy family was deemed
worthy to glorify the Lord by martyrdom. The pagans beheaded the
courageous confessor Valentinus the Presbyter, and the imperial gardener
Asterius who had been converted by him, and the holy ascetics from
Persia were arrested and given over to torture. By order of the emperor,
Sts Marinus, Audifax and Habakkuk were beheaded in the year 269, and St
Martha was drowned in a river.
The relics of the holy saints are
in Rome at the Church of St John the Hut-Dweller, and the relics of St
Valentinus are in the Church of the holy Martyr Paraskeva.
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