Marina

Holy Venerable Marina was abbess of a women's monastery at Thebes in Upper Egypt. She is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 25 July (new style), beside Saints Olympias the Deaconess and Eupraxia.

The synaxarion recalls Marina in the story of Venerable Eupraxia, daughter of the senator Antigonus and a relative of Emperor Theodosius the Great. With her mother she came to Egypt and visited a women's monastery at Thebes, whose abbess was a holy woman named Marina; life there attracted her so much that she remained with the nuns and struggled for forty-⁠five years. About Marina herself the sources consulted say no more than that she was abbess and is entered in the group of these venerable women.