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Marinus of Tarsus
martyr at Tarsus in Cilicia
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 8 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Tarsus in Cilicia, in present-day Turkey, the passion of Saint Marinus, an old man native of Ainvarza, who was beheaded under the emperor Diocletian and the governor Lysias and whose body, by order of the prefect, was given to the wild beasts to eat.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 8 August as an aged man beheaded at Tarsus under Diocletian, whose body was given to the wild beasts.
Sources
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