A baptismal name for a girl
Marina
7 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Marina
Great Martyr MarinaJuly 17Maiden of Antioch in Pisidia, killed for her confession of Christ in the persecution of Diocletian.
Venerable Marina the MonkJune 18Woman who lived as a monk under the name Marinos in the East, probably in the fifth century.- Martyr MarinaJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Venerable MarinaJuly 25An abbess commemorated with Saints Olympias the Deaconess and Eupraxia.
- Venerable Marina of BeroeaA virgin recluse of Beroea, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Martyr Marina XuJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Fool-for-Christ Marina of SicilyJuly 17A fool for Christ of Sicily, venerated by the faithful without synodal canonization.
Questions
The name day of Marina is July 17, the feast of Great Martyr Marina. It is also kept on June 18, June 11, July 25.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 7 saints named Marina, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Marina is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Great Martyr Marina as patron.