Galina of Corinth

Holy Martyr Galina of Corinth suffered at Corinth about the year 258, in the persecution of Decius, with Leonidas and with Charissa, Nike (Victoria), Kalista, Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora and Irene. They are commemorated on 16 April (new style).

Leonidas, born in the Peloponnese, led a spiritual choir of women. When the other Christians of the region were hiding, the women, led by him, kept singing praises and thanksgiving to God, openly confessing the faith. They were arrested a few days before Pascha at Troezen in Argolis and taken to Corinth, before the governor Venustus. They were thrown into the sea but did not drown: they walked on the waters as on dry land, singing spiritual hymns. The tormentors overtook them in a ship, tied stones to their necks and drowned them.