Mar Marinus of Persia

Holy Martyr Mar Marinus of Persia was one of the martyrs imprisoned at Baravokh in Persia, in the time of King Shapur (310-331), a cruel persecutor of Christians. With him were imprisoned Zanithas, Lazarus, Maruthas, Narses, Elias, Abibus, Sivethinus and Sabbas. The Azbyka page says nothing particular about Marinus.

The brothers Jonah and Barachisius were Christians and lived in the village of Yasy in Persia. Learning that in the city of Baravokh Christians were being tortured, they went there, found the martyrs in prison and urged them to keep the Christian faith to the end. The brothers were seized and brought before the Persian princes Masdraph, Sirophus and Marmisias, who wished to force them to bow to the sun, fire and water. The saints firmly confessed faith in Christ and refused, and so were put to the most terrible tortures.

First to suffer was Saint Jonah. They tied him to a tree and beat him a long time, then dragged him over the ice of a frozen lake, cut off the fingers of his hands and feet, cut out his tongue, flayed the skin of his head, and at the end sawed him in two and threw his body into a ditch. On Saint Barachisius they put shackles heated red-⁠hot, poured molten tin into his nose, ears and mouth and tormented him bound to a turning wheel. He gave up his spirit to God after boiling pitch was poured into his mouth. The bodies of the holy martyrs Jonah and Barachisius and of the other sufferers were buried by a pious Christian named Abdisot.

They are commemorated on 10 April, in the new style. The name of Marinus is not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.