Biographies of the saints and martyrs in the Coptic Orthodox Church
The story of the martyr Demiana and the forty virgins martyrs
Origin:
She was born of devout Christian parents in the late 3rd century, her father Mark was governor of Burullus and Saffron in the Sisban Valley. She reached the first year of her life deliberately in Deir al-Maima, south of the city of Saffron, and her father held a banquet for the poor and needy for three days after a period of her mother moved.
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| martyr Demiana |
One of the princes came to her father asking for her hand, and she was known for her piety and love for worship with her beauty, richness, and literature. The father offered it to her. "Why do you want my marriage and I would like to live with you? Do you want me to leave you?"
This exclamation her father for her answer, Varga talks about marriage. Notice to his daughter that she loved the Bible and recited it, and resorted to her own room pouring tears of love in front of God the Savior, also noted her strong attachment to the church with the many fasts and prayers, and the presence of many girls her friends spend her time with her in an ascetic life characterized by many prayers with praise Continuous.
At the age of eighteen revealed her determination to the life of virginity, and her father welcomed this trend. To achieve this desire built a palace in the hand of saffron at her request, to be unique to worship, and gathered around forty virgins who vowed virginity.
The pure virgin Demiana was delighted to love her father, which exceeded the abstract emotional love, as his only daughter offered a sacrifice of love to God.
The saint lived with her friends a wonderful hermit life. Fasting was combined with prayer and praise, which turned the palace into a sky where the sounding the persecution that Diocletian provoked, her father weakened Mark and evaporated idols. As soon as Demiana heard the news, she emerged from her isolation to meet her father. St. Demiana asked her virgin friends to pray and pray for her father's salvation so that he would be lost.
The saint met her father, and in courage and firmness she said to him, "I would like to hear about your death about leaving the true God." She also said to him: "I know, my father, that if you persist in this tyranny I do not know you and I will be innocent of you here and in front of the throne of religion where you have no share in the eternal inheritance that God has prepared for his lovers and keep his covenant." His cry became bitter about his indignation for Christ no matter what. I asked him not to fear death, but fear those who destroy the soul and the body together, and not to compliment the emperor at the expense of his faith and eternity.
With her firmness and full frankness, the tears of her love crumbled non-stop, telling him: and of constant cheering was heard.
These words and tears inflamed Mark's heart, so he cried bitterly and regretted what he had committed. (You can find more about these saints here on the website of St. Takla in the sections of Sir, Synaxar, and History.) Insincere repentance in the spirit of humility filled with hope, he said to her, "Blessed is this hour that I have seen you, my daughter.
In the spirit of hope, he thanked God, who awakened his heart, saying: "Thank you, my God, for you have taken away the darkness of disbelief from my heart. The trap was broken and we survived ..."
The emperor marveled at the transformation of this obedient wali, who left his faith and evaporated to idols that he professed his faith with full force. Mark rebuked the emperor for his faith and urged him to return to the living faith. The emperor did not rush to punish him but used many attempts to lure him, as Mark did not retreat revolted tyrant, and ordered to behead. This was the fifth of Aviv, in the Festival of the Apostles.
The news spread throughout the state and the heart of his daughter Saint Demiana rejoiced. Her father survived eternal destruction to share his glories. At the same time, the emperor was saddened by Mark's pride.
A few days later Diocletian learned that his daughter, Demiana, was the reason for Mark's return to the Christian faith, and he sent some soldiers, together with torture machines, to take revenge on her and the virgins who lived with her. I saw St. Soldier camped around the palace and prepared the torture machines. I gathered the virgins and in the spirit of victory she declared that the emperor had prepared everything to terrify them, but the time of the wreath was there. Whoever wanted to enjoy it, wait, and the feared people would escape from the back door. There was not a single virgin who feared death. With great joy, they said that they are clinging to their Christ and will not flee.
The commander met with the saint and told her that the emperor invited her to worship the gods and offered her many treasures and set her up as a great princess. She replied: "Ashamed to call idols gods, there is no god but the Lord of heaven and earth. And I am with me ready to die for his name."
The commander was upset and ordered four soldiers to put her inside the henbanes to be squeezed. The virgins were crying as they looked at them squeezed. She was thrown in prison almost like a dead man. The Archangel Michael came in the middle of the night and erased all her surgery.
In the morning the soldiers entered the prison to convey the news of her death to the commander, was surprised that they did not find a trace of surgery in her body. They proclaimed this to the commander. He was very excited and said, "Demiana is a witch! Her magic must be revoked!" "We believe in the God of Demiana," the crowd shouted, and the commander ordered them to be killed.
The commander became more enraged and put in his heart to avenge the saint by multiplying the suffering, calculating that it had misled many.
He ordered to comb her body with iron combs, massage it with vinegar and lime, but she was excited. She considered herself ineligible for Christ's suffering to share.
He was thrown into prison, and on the second day, the commander himself went to jail, calculating that he would find her dead body, but collapsed when he found her completely intact. The Archangel Michael and her lips appeared.
In a revolt he began to torment her in many ways, such as breaking her skull, taking her eyes off and flaying her skin, but a white dove came down from the sky and flew over her and the saint as well.
Whenever the leader tried to torture her, the Lord glorified her. Finally, he ordered her to be beaten with the sword and her virgins. Before the sword plunged on the neck of St. Demiana, she said: "I confess Jesus Christ, and by His name I die, and by Him, I live forever." That was in 13 bricks.
The body of the martyr is still in her church, built by Queen Helena, mother of King Constantine, near Belkas in the north of the Delta. Pope Alexandros inaugurated it on the twelfth day of the month of Bashan.
Attached to the church is the monastery of St. Demiana, and many churches were built in their name in the Egyptian country.
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