{"id":183607,"date":"2025-07-30T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=183607"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:27:34","slug":"we-celebrate-ognjena-marija-heres-why-women-should-not-do-anything-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/we-celebrate-ognjena-marija-heres-why-women-should-not-do-anything-today\/","title":{"rendered":"WE CELEBRATE OGNJENA MARIJA: Here’s why women should not do anything today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Serbian Orthodox Church and believers today commemorate the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Marina, known among the people as Ognjena Marija. She is revered as a fighter for the Christian faith and a protector of women.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint Marina was born at the end of the third century, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian in Southern Anatolia, in Antioch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the only child of pagan parents, she was baptized at the age of 12, which led her father to disown her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to her faith in the Lord, after severe torments, she was beheaded by a sword at the age of 16. Her relics became miraculous and healing, and have always been revered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is believed among the people that Ognjena Marija is the sister of Saint Elijah and Saint Panteleimon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to folk belief, Saint Marina sets fire and punishes with fire, and like Saint Elijah who punishes with lightning, she belongs to the “fiery” saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folk tradition preserves examples of fire that, on hot feast days, burned grain, hay, and the homes of people who sinned by working on the feast of Ognjena Marija.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All who have suffered damage from lightning and storms celebrate her. The folk saying goes \u2013 he who celebrates Ognjena Marija is sure of the harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also celebrated as a family patron saint’s day (krsna slava).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is customary on this holiday, when due to the great heat “the sky and earth burn,” to do no work, especially fieldwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one works, especially women, because it is believed that no work today can bring happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The folk saying goes that on Ognjena Marija “it is not good to even thread a needle.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Serbian Orthodox Church and believers today commemorate the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Marina, known among the people as Ognjena Marija. She is revered as a fighter for the Christian faith and a protector of women. Saint Marina was born at the end of the third century, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":183608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3706,1781,634,7670,240,5271,2243],"class_list":["post-183607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-crkveni-kalendar","tag-crkveni-praznik","tag-istorija","tag-ognjena-marija","tag-pravoslavlje","tag-rimsko-carstvo","tag-srpska-pravoslavna-crkva","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t