Venerable (Monastic) · 5th century
Venerable Marina and Kyra of Syria
Also known as Marina and Cyra of Berea
Two sisters of Berea in Syria who, leaving their noble home, enclosed themselves in a small open courtyard bound with heavy chains, keeping silence and fasting for some forty years. They reposed about the year 450.
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Notes
Commemorated together as sisters.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints