The Martyr Christina lived in the third century. She was born into a wealthy family. Her father Urvan was the ruler of the city of Tyre. At the age of 11, the girl was extremely beautiful, and many wanted to marry her. However, Christina's father dreamed of her becoming a priestess. To do this, he placed her in a special room, where he placed many gold and silver idols, and ordered his daughter to burn incense before them. Two female slaves served Christina.
In her solitude, Christina began to wonder who had created this beautiful world. From her room, she admired the starry sky and gradually came to the idea of a Single Creator of the whole world. She became convinced that the voiceless and soulless idols that stood in her chambers could not create anything, since they themselves were created by human hands. She began to pray to the One God with tears, asking Him to reveal Himself. Her soul was inflamed with love for the Unknown God, and she intensified prayer more and more, combining it with fasting.
One day, Christina was honored with a visit from an Angel who guided her in the true faith in Christ, the Savior of the world. The angel called her the bride of Christ and foreshadowed her future suffering feat. The Holy Virgin smashed all her idols and threw them out the window. Hristina Urvan's father, visiting his daughter, asked her where the idols had disappeared to. Christina was silent. Then, summoning the slaves, Urvan learned the truth from them. In anger, the father began to slap his daughter's cheeks. The Holy Virgin was silent at first, and then revealed to her father her faith in the One True God and that she had destroyed idols with her own hands. Then Urvan ordered all the slaves who served his daughter to be killed, and Christina was brutally scourged and thrown into prison. Upon learning of the incident, the mother of St. Christina came crying to her daughter, asking her to renounce Christ and return to her fatherly beliefs. However, Christina remained adamant. The next day, Urvan called his daughter to the court and began to persuade her to worship the gods and ask for forgiveness for her sin, but he saw her firm and unyielding confession.
Her tormentors tied her to an iron wheel, under which they lit a fire. The body of the martyr, turning on the wheel, was burned from all sides. Then she was thrown into a dungeon.
An angel of God appeared at night, healed her of her wounds and refreshed her with food. Her father, seeing her unharmed the next morning, ordered her to be drowned in the sea. But the Angel supported the saint, the stone sank, and Christina miraculously came out of the water and appeared to her father. Horrified, the tormentor attributed this to the action of magic and decided to execute her the next morning. He died unexpectedly that night. Another ruler, Dion, who was sent to replace him, called the holy martyr and also tried to persuade her to renounce Christ, but seeing her unyielding firmness, he again subjected her to cruel torments. The Holy Martyr Christina was in prison for a long time. People began to infiltrate her, and she converted them to the true faith in Christ. About 3,000 people applied this way.
A new ruler, Julian, arrived in Dion's place and began torturing the saint. After various torments, Julian ordered her to be thrown into a red-hot furnace and shut up in it. Five days later, the furnace was opened and the martyr was found alive and unharmed. Seeing the miracles taking place, many believed in Christ the Savior, and the tormentors hacked down Saint Christina with a sword.