09 — Veneration and Legacy
The feast and the final assessment. These files close the collection: the commemoration of St. Marina — 17 July in the Orthodox East, 20 July in the traditional Western calendar — and the festal customs East and West; and a concluding assessment of the whole tradition, drawing together the legend, the cult, the source-history, and the discipline by which they have been held, to state what endures and what Marina teaches the reader of hagiography.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Great Martyr; virgin-martyr); with the Western reception of Margaret of Antioch
The collection ends where the cult is most concretely kept — the feast — and with a backward look over the whole. The feast-file fixes the dates and the customs of the one saint’s two commemorations; the assessment-file gathers the threads, restating the collection’s governing judgment (a beloved cult on a legendary base, the legend honored as legend and the saint venerated as a saint) and drawing from Marina the lesson she holds for the reading of all hagiography.
Files in This Section
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| Feast and Customs | The commemoration: 17 July in the Orthodox East, 20 July in the traditional Western calendar; the place of the feast in the calendar, and the festal customs of the one saint’s two commemorations East and West. |
| Legacy and Assessment | The concluding assessment: the legend, the cult, the source-history, and the discipline drawn together; what endures of Marina; and the lesson her case holds for the reading of hagiography. |
See Also
- The Cult, East and West — the cult the feast anchors
- Marina in Orthodox Piety — the living devotion the feast gathers
- The Cult Without a History — the theological judgment the assessment restates
- Great Feasts — the festal life of the Church in which the commemoration is set
References
- Bibliotheca Sanctorum, vol. 8, “Marina” and “Margherita di Antiochia.” Rome, 1966–1967.
- Delehaye, Hippolyte. Les légendes hagiographiques. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1905.