The Holy Martyr Christina helps in some way. Memorial Day of the Martyr Christ. Christina's Angel Day

Mu-che-ni-tsa Christ lived in the 3rd century. She was born into a divine family. Her father Urvan was the ruler of the city of Ti-ra. At the age of 11 years old, the girl was struck by an unusually-veined beauty, and many wanted to marry her. However, Christina’s father dreamed that his daughter would become a priestess. For this, he placed it in a special place, where he placed a lot of gold and silver idols , and ordered them to sing fimi-am before them. Two slaves serve Christina.

In his solitude, Christ began to think about who created this beautiful world? From her room, she fell in love with the starry sky and gradually came to the idea of the One Creator of the whole world. She became convinced that the voiceless and soulless idols that stood in her chambers could not have created anything. , since you yourself would have ru-ka-mi people. She began to pray to the One God with tears, asking Him to reveal Himself. Her soul became more and more in love with the Neva-do-my God, she became more and more intensified in her prayer, united nyaya her with po-sche-ni-em.

One day, Christ was lucky enough to meet An-ge-la, who in- structed her in the true faith in Christ, Savior of the world. The angel called her the bride of Christ and presented her with a future suffocating deed. The holy girl broke all the hundred idols that appeared in her place and threw them out the window. Christina's father Urvan, visiting his daughter, asked her where the idols had gone? Hri-sti-na mol-cha-la. Then, calling the slaves, Urvan learned the truth from them. In anger, the father began to hit his daughter on the cheeks. The holy girl slept silently, and then revealed to her father her faith in the One Istin-no-go God and that with her ru-ka-mi she uni-that-lived with idols. That's when Urvan ordered to kill all the slaves who served before him, and Christ betrayed the same hundred bi-che-va -niyu and throw-force in that-ni-tsu. Having learned about the incident, the mother of Saint Christina came to her daughter crying, asking her to renounce Christ and return - to my father’s faiths. However, Christina remained adamant. The next day, Urvan called his daughter to court and began to persuade her to pay homage to the gods, to ask for forgiveness for her sin, but I saw her firm and unyielding determination.

They tied her to an iron stake, under which fire was lit. The body of the mu-che-ni-tsy, ra-chi-va-sitting on the wheel, was surrounded from all sides. Then she was thrown into the same place.

An angel of God appeared at night, healed her from her wounds and strengthened her with food. Her father, seeing her unharmed in the morning, decided to drown her in the sea. But the Angel held the saint, sank into the stone, and Christ miraculously came out of the water and appeared to her -mu father. In horror, the mu-chi-tel attributed this to the action of magic and decided to execute her in the morning. But whose same he unexpectedly died. Another ruler, Di-on, who was sent in his place, called upon the holy woman and also tried to bend the thread to -re-reading from Christ, but, seeing her unyielding firmness, he again betrayed her to the same torments. The holy mother of Christ was in the dark for a long time. People began to approach her, and she converted them to the true faith in Christ. This is how about 3,000 people came together.

In place of Di-o-na, a new ruler, Yuli-an, arrived and approached the holy one. After various personal torments, Yuli-an ordered her to be thrown into a red-hot oven and sealed in it. Five days later the oven was opened and they found a man alive and unharmed. You see the things that happen, many believe in Christ the Savior, and many people are holy I'm tucking Christ with the sword.

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Christina lived at the turn of the 2nd–3rd centuries in Tire of Phoenicia under the emperor Septimius Severus (194–211). Her father was a powerful pagan military leader named Urvan. Jealously guarding the dazzling beauty of his daughter, he imprisoned her in a high tower, where she was served by many slaves and she could enjoy all the benefits of luxury and wealth. In this tower, Urvan placed statues of the gods, decorated with jewels, so that his daughter could worship them.

Although the virgin remained locked up, without any connection with the world, the grace of God visited Christina and gave birth in her soul to the desire to know the truth. With her truthful mind, she realized that soulless statues - the creation of human hands - cannot in any way be deities, and, contemplating in the window the beauty of the sky, earth and all the wonders of nature, she came to the conclusion that such a beautiful harmony can be the creation of only one God and Creator, infinitely wise. Then an angel of the Lord was sent to the virgin, instructing her in what she vaguely felt in her heart - in the secrets of the Divinity and creation. Thus, having acquired the light of truth and filled with zealous love for God, Christina devoted her life to fasting and prayer.

When her parents came to visit her and offered to worship idols, she responded with a firm refusal, declaring that she was now following Christ, the true Light who had come into the world. She rejected all her father’s entreaties and asked to give her a snow-white shirt in order to make a spiritual sacrifice to God, the One in Three Persons. Urban fulfilled his daughter’s request without understanding its essence. When Christina was immersed in prayer, an angel appeared, greeting her as the bride of Christ, and announced the trials ahead of her, with which she would glorify the Lord. Before leaving, he marked the virgin with the seal of Christ, blessed her and filled her with heavenly bread.

At night, the saint chopped up all the statues in the tower with an ax and went to distribute the fragments of silver and gold to the poor. Seeing this the next morning, Urvan became terribly angry and ordered Christina’s slaves to be beheaded and her daughter to be scourged. Twelve soldiers flogged the maiden to the point of exhaustion, but Christina, by the power of grace, remained unshakable, confessing Christ and accusing her father. Urvan ordered her to be thrown into prison, shackled in heavy chains, and left. His wife visited the prison in tears to beg Christina to submit and thereby save her life. But these persuasion did not bring results.

The next day, Christina was again tortured. First they tore her flesh, and then tied her to a wheel and hung her over a blazing hearth, but through her prayer the Lord extinguished the flame. Sent back to prison, she received a visit from three angels who brought her food and healed her wounds.

At night Urvan sent five slaves. They grabbed the saint, tied a heavy stone around her neck and threw her into the sea. But even here the angels came to the aid of the martyr: they untied the stone, and Christina walked on the waters as if on dry land. A shining cloud descended from heaven - and Christ appeared, dressed in precious royal robes and surrounded by a host of angels who glorified the Lord with songs and filled the air with the delicate fragrance of incense. Fulfilling the saint’s desire, Christ Himself baptized her in the waters of the sea, and then entrusted her to the Archangel Michael, who escorted Christina to land and to her parental home.

Having discovered that the girl had survived despite all the attempts to kill her, Urvan ordered her to be beheaded the next day. But that same night he died in a tragic manner.

The post of Urvan was taken by the new magistrate Dion. Having familiarized himself with the case, he called the saint and ordered her to be tortured. She stood firm. Then he ordered her hair to be cut off and paraded naked throughout the city to cover her with shame. The next day, the martyr pretended to agree to fulfill Dion’s demand and wanted to bow to the statue of Apollo. Arriving at the temple, she prayed to the true God and ordered the statue to walk forty steps. However, even such a miracle did not convert Dion. Then the saint, calling on the name of God, overturned the statue and broke it into pieces. Three thousand pagans, witnesses of the miracle, turned to Christ.

Dion did not survive such a defeat and soon died, and his place was taken by a new ruler, Julian. He imprisoned the saint in a red-hot furnace. The martyr spent five days there, during which she sang hymns of praise to the Lord along with the angels. Then the ruler ordered her to be thrown into a ditch full of wild animals and poisonous reptiles, but even there no evil touched the servant of God: the asps curled up at her feet, as if wanting to bow to her, and the snakes gently wiped the sweat from her forehead. Only Julian turned out to be more ferocious than the predatory creatures, and persisted in hatred of the martyr. He ordered her breasts to be cut off, from which blood and milk gushed out, and then her tongue to be torn out. After all the torment, two warriors pierced the saint’s heart and side with spears, giving her the crown of incorruptible victory and eternal bliss in the contemplation of the Heavenly Bridegroom.

After the imminent death of the tyrant, one of Christina’s relatives, who was converted thanks to her miracles, laid to rest the saint’s body in a church erected in memory of her.

From a book published by the Sretensky Monastery publishing house.

Compiled by Hieromonk Macarius of Simonopetra,
adapted Russian translation - Sretensky Monastery Publishing House

Life of the Martyr Christ.

The Martyr Christina lived in the 3rd century. She was born into a rich family. Her father Urvan was the ruler of the city of Tire. At the age of 11, the girl was distinguished by her extraordinary beauty, and many wanted to marry her. However, Christina’s father dreamed of his daughter becoming a priestess. To do this, he placed her in a special room, where he placed many gold and silver idols, and ordered his daughter to burn incense in front of them. Two slaves served Christina.

In her solitude, Christina began to think about who created this beautiful world? From her room she admired the starry sky and gradually came to the idea of the One Creator of the whole world. She became convinced that the voiceless and soulless idols that stood in her chambers could not create anything, since they themselves were created by human hands. She began to pray to the One God with tears, asking Him to reveal Himself. Her soul flared up with love for the Unknown God, she increasingly intensified her prayer, combining it with fasting.

One day, Christina received a visit from an Angel, who instructed her in the true faith in Christ, the Savior of the world. The angel called her the bride of Christ and foreshadowed her future suffering. The holy virgin broke all the idols that stood near her and threw them out the window. Christina's father Urvan, visiting his daughter, asked her where the idols had gone? Christina was silent. Then, calling the slaves, Urvan learned the truth from them. In anger, the father began to hit his daughter on the cheeks. The holy virgin was silent at first, and then revealed to her father her faith in the One True God and that with her own hands she destroyed the idols. Then Urvan ordered to kill all the slaves who served his daughter, and gave Christina a cruel scourging and threw him into prison. Having learned about what had happened, Saint Christina’s mother came to her daughter crying, asking her to renounce Christ and return to her father’s beliefs. However, Christina remained adamant. The next day, Urvan called his daughter to trial and began to persuade her to worship the gods and ask for forgiveness for her sin, but he saw her firm and unyielding confession.

The torturers tied her to an iron wheel, under which they lit a fire. The body of the martyr, turning on the wheel, was burned from all sides. She was then thrown into prison.

An angel of God appeared at night, healed her of her wounds and strengthened her with food. Her father, seeing her unharmed the next morning, ordered her to be drowned in the sea. But an Angel supported the saint, the stone sank, and Christina miraculously emerged from the water and appeared to her father. In horror, the torturer attributed this to the effect of magic and decided to execute her the next morning. At night he unexpectedly died. Another ruler, Dion, who was sent in his place, called on the holy martyr and also tried to persuade her to renounce Christ, but, seeing her unyielding firmness, he again gave her over to cruel torture. The Holy Martyr Christina was in prison for a long time. People began to approach her, and she converted them to true faith in Christ. About 3,000 people applied this way.

In place of Dion, a new ruler, Julian, arrived and began to torture the saint. After various torments, Julian ordered her to be thrown into a red-hot oven and shut up in it. Five days later the oven was opened and the martyr was found alive and unharmed. Seeing the miracles taking place, many believed in Christ the Savior, and the torturers hacked Saint Christina to death with a sword.

One of the most beautiful European female purely Christian names is the name Christina. In this article we will talk about what days and in honor of whom its bearers celebrate their name days.

As you know, every person baptized in the Catholic or Orthodox Church is named in honor of one or another saint, who is subsequently considered the heavenly patron of the believer. The day of church remembrance of this saint or saint of God becomes what people call Angel Day. Another name for this day is name day. The name Christina is especially lucky in this sense, because there are quite a lot of holy women named by it.

Nevertheless, every woman, like every man, can have only one Angel Day a year. Therefore, when baptizing, you must choose your patroness. To do this, we provide below a list of the main ones revered in the Russian Orthodox Church. Surely there are others, but the trouble is that there is no single list of all the saints in the world - there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions. And new ones are constantly appearing. For each saint on our list, we will attach the date of celebration and a brief biography so that you can decide which one you like best. But first, one more point needs to be noted - in the Eastern Christian tradition, the name Christina is usually transliterated in the Greek manner, namely as Christina. This is his church pronunciation.

February 19. Martyr Christina of Caesarea

Christina, whose name day (Angel's Day) falls during this winter time, celebrates the memory of her martyr of the same name, who came from Caesarea in Cappadocia and lived in the 3rd century. It was a difficult time for believers, when simply recognizing oneself as a Christian could result in torture, confiscation of property and death. Nevertheless, believers endured all the sorrows courageously and bravely, facing torture and death with joy, as a feat for the sake of Christ. Some, of course, out of cowardice, weakness of character and fear, fell away and renounced their faith. Christina was from the first category. She, along with a sister named Callista, was seized for her membership of the church and forced to renounce. The girls categorically refused, for which they were tied back to each other and burned alive in a barrel soaked in tar. Christina's name day in honor of this woman is celebrated on February 19.

26 March. Martyr Christina of Persia

A little later than the previous martyr, namely in the 4th century, another Christina suffered for her faith in Christ. This time it was in Persia, where local pagans also opposed the spread of Christianity. Moreover, in the Roman Empire, faith in Christ had already been legalized and even made the state, official religion to replace the previous paganism. Therefore, Persia, which perceived Byzantium as its political enemy, saw Christians as potential traitors, agents of influence of the Roman Empire and politically unreliable people. Because of this, Christian believers were persecuted in every possible way and forced to renounce their faith. Saint Christina refused to do this and was beaten to death with whips for her faith. The name day of Christina, named in honor of this saint, is celebrated on March 26.

May 31. Martyr Christina of Lampsaki

Another martyr during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. By order of Emperor Diocletian, another wave of oppression and demonstrative executions broke out in the state. During this process, a resident of the city of Lampsacus of the Hellespont was also injured. She was beheaded for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. She probably had Roman citizenship, since only Romans were executed in this way, because other methods of execution were prohibited in relation to them. Christina's birthday, which bears her name in memory of this woman, is celebrated on the last day of May.

June 13. Martyr Christina of Nicomedia

It just so happens that all the saints of Christ listed in this article are martyrs. The woman we will talk about now is no exception in this sense. On the 13th of the first summer month, Christina celebrates her name day, named in her memory. But little is known about the details of the life of this saint. All we can say with certainty is that she came from the city of Nicomedia, where she was killed because she was a Christian and did not want to renounce her beliefs when it was necessary.

August 6. Martyr Christina of Tire

This holy woman was not just a Christian. She was born and lived in the 3rd century and came from the family of the ruler of the city of Tyre. According to legend, her father prepared her for a career as a pagan priestess, but the daughter, contrary to the hopes of her parents, converted to Christianity and flatly refused to fulfill her parents’ will. In anger, the father, as the life of the saint says, first beat her, trying to force her to apostatize, but, having failed, he brought her to trial. In the future, no matter how her parents or judges tried to persuade the girl to return to the fold of paganism, she remained faithful to the choice she made. She was eventually hacked to death with a sword. This sufferer for her faith is commemorated on August 6th.

August 18. Martyr Christina

This is the last in our list of saints named Christina. Orthodox Christians can celebrate her name day in her memory, despite the fact that absolutely nothing is known about her, except that she once lived and was forcibly killed for her faith in God.

Martyr Christina lived in the 3rd century. She was born into a rich family. Her father Urvan was the ruler of the city of Tire. At the age of 11, the girl was distinguished by her extraordinary beauty, and many wanted to marry her. However, Christina’s father dreamed of his daughter becoming a priestess. To do this, he placed her in a special room, where he placed many gold and silver idols, and ordered his daughter to burn incense in front of them. Two slaves served Christina.

One day, Christina received a visit from an Angel, who instructed her in true faith in Christ, the Savior of the world. The angel called her the bride of Christ and foreshadowed her future suffering. The holy virgin broke all the idols that stood near her and threw them out the window. Christina's father Urvan, visiting his daughter, asked her where the idols had gone? Christina was silent. Then, calling the slaves, Urvan learned the truth from them. In anger, the father began to hit his daughter on the cheeks. The holy virgin was silent at first, and then revealed to her father her faith in the One True God and that with her own hands she destroyed the idols. Then Urvan ordered to kill all the slaves who served his daughter, and gave Christina a cruel scourging and threw him into prison. Having learned about what had happened, Saint Christina’s mother came to her daughter crying, asking her to renounce Christ and return to her father’s beliefs. However, Christina remained adamant. The next day, Urvan called his daughter to trial and began to persuade her to worship the gods and ask for forgiveness for her sin, but he saw her firm and unyielding confession.

The torturers tied her to an iron wheel, under which they lit a fire. The body of the martyr, turning on the wheel, was burned from all sides. She was then thrown into prison.

A new ruler, Julian, arrived in Dion’s place and began torturing the saint. After various torments, Julian ordered her to be thrown into a red-hot oven and shut up in it. Five days later the oven was opened and the martyr was found alive and unharmed. Seeing the miracles taking place, many believed in Christ the Savior, and the tormentors hacked Saint Christina to death with a sword.