Byzantine Stories, Episode 9 - Women in the Byzantine World. Part 1 - Immense and Immeasurable
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As you may know I have already produced three episodes about Women in the Roman World which are available for you on the Ad-Free Bonus Feed at Patreon.
I now present three more episodes about Women in the Byzantine World. And these episodes are very much a continuation of that series. In part one we talk about how the arrival of Christianity affected Roman women. We also hear a couple of Saints' Lives. These tales give us a rare glimpse of how women appeared in popular culture.
This first episode is free but parts 2 and 3 are only available on the Ad-Free Bonus Feed at Patreon.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:12.0 | Byzantine stories |
| 0:16.0 | Episode 9 |
| 0:19.0 | Women in the Byzantine world |
| 0:31.0 | Part 1 |
| 0:33.0 | immense and immeasurable |
| 0:40.0 | This is the story of St Mary or St Marinos. |
| 0:47.0 | There was a man named Eugenius, who lived in purity, piety and in the fear of God. |
| 0:54.0 | He was married and had a daughter named Mary. His wife died while Mary was young, so he raised her alone, teaching her the ways of a pious life. |
| 1:04.0 | Once she had grown up, he decided to enter a monastery. Mary cried and begged him not to leave her behind. |
| 1:12.0 | Eugenius responded, Child, what am I to do with you? You are female, and I desire to enter a monastery. |
| 1:20.0 | How then can you remain with me for it's through the members of your sex that the devil wages war on the servants of God? |
| 1:29.0 | Mary was persuasive, though. She convinced her father to take her with him. |
| 1:35.0 | So they cut all her hair off, dressed her like a man, and renamed her Marinos. |
| 1:43.0 | After giving away all their possessions, they each took their vows and entered a monastery. |
| 1:48.0 | Marinos remained undetected, as her new brothers assumed that she was a eunuch. |
| 1:55.0 | With her high voice and beardless face, what other conclusion could they draw? |
| 2:01.0 | Marinos excelled at the monastic life. She was selfless, modest, and hardworking. |
| 2:07.0 | After her father died, she gained more attention, being gifted by God with the ability to drive demons from the sick. |
| 2:15.0 | The other forty monks she lived with were impressed and looked upon her as one of their brightest and best. |
| 2:24.0 | Every month four of the monks would leave the monastery and travel out to the wilderness. |
| 2:30.0 | Their task was to take food and supplies to their brothers who had chosen to live a solitary life. |
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