Mariamne

Saint Mariamne was the sister of the Apostle Philip, a preacher of the Gospel, in the first century. She is counted a saint in the Orthodox Church and in the Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church commemorates her on 17 February by the old calendar, which is 2 March by the new. The Greek churches call her equal to the apostles, and Russian church books call her righteous.

Mariamne, like her brother, believed in Christ. After the Crucifixion and Resurrection she set out to preach Christianity with the apostles Philip and Bartholomew. According to the Menologion of Basil II, in the city of Hierapolis all three were seized for their preaching by the proconsul, then bound and tormented: they were hung on a tree, probably head down. The Apostle Philip, before he died, prayed, and through his prayer the ground gave way, and the proconsul with his wife fell into the chasm made, and both perished. The people who were present, from fear, freed Bartholomew and Mariamne.

Bartholomew went to preach the Gospel in India. Mariamne preached the Gospel in Lycaonia, where she reposed in peace.