E05738: John Malalas in his Chronographia reports that in 529 the relics of *Marinos (martyr of Gindarus, S02160) were miraculously found in Gindarus (Syria) and buried at the shrine of *Ioulianos (martyr of Cilicia, S00305) at Antioch. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c.

John Malalas, Chronographia, 18.49

Εὑρέθη δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ τὸ τίμιον λείψανον τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος Μαρίνου εἰς τὴν πρώτην Συρίαν ἔξω τῆς λεγομένης Γινδάρου πόλεως, τοῦ περιοδευτοῦ τῆς χώρας ἐν ὀπτασίᾳ πλειστάκις ἑωρακότος τὸν τόπον, ἔνθα ἔκειτο ὁ ἅγιος, ἔχων ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς κατὰ παντὸς τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ ἥλους σιδηροῦς, εἰς σανίδα παραπλωθεὶς προσηλώθη, καὶ ἐτέθη εἰς πέτραν γλυφεῖσαν αὐτῷ τάφον. καὶ ἐπήρθη τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἠνέχθη καὶ κατετέθη ἔξω τῆς Ἀντιοχέων πόλεως ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ Ἰουλιανῷ.

‘In that year the precious relics of the holy martyr Marinos were found in First Syria outside the city which is called Gindaros. The visiting priest of the area had several times seen in a vision the place where the saint lay. He had iron nails through all his body from the head down and was stretched out on a board and nailed to it, and he had been placed in a rock that was hollowed out to form a tomb for him. His body was removed and carried away and laid to rest outside the city of Antioch at Saint Ioulianos’.’

Text: Thurn 2000. Translation: E. Rizos using Jeffreys, Jeffreys, and Scott 1986.