Saint Marinus [SEP] place of death
Saint Marinus
Saint Marinus () was the founder of a chapel and monastery, in 301. From this initial community the state of San Marino later grew.
Life.
Tradition holds that he was a stonemason by trade who came from the island of Arba (today Rab), on the other side of the Adriatic Sea (in what is now part of modern-day Croatia, then part of the Roman Empire), fleeing persecution for his Christian beliefs in the Diocletianic Persecution. Still known only by the
Pope Marinus II
Pope Marinus II (; or Martin III; died May 946) was Pope from 30 October 942 to his death in 946.
Pontificate.
Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian. He was said to have encountered St. Ulrich on his visit to Rome in 909, and reportedly predicted Ulrich's eventual appointment as Bishop of Augsburg.
Marinus was elevated to the papacy on 30 October 942 through intervention of