Saint Marinus

Marinus, the patron saint of San Marino, is considered the founder ( in 301 ) the oldest existing republic in the world. According to tradition he was a stonemason who (now Croatia) passed through the trade of the island of Rab on the other shore of the Adriatic Sea, where he was exposed because of his Christian faith of Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He was ordained by Gaudentius, the Bishop of Rimini, a deacon. As a mentally ill woman accused him that he was her from her estranged husband, he fled to Monte Titano, lived as a hermit and built a chapel and a monastery. Marinus was canonized, was later to the monastery of the state of San Marino. His feast day is September 3, the anniversary of the founding of San Marino and state national holiday.

Marinus said to have died in the winter 366 with the last words: ". Relinquo vos liberos from utroque homine " ("I leave you free from the people and from that "). This mysterious sentence refers to the local tradition to the two persons have sought to detach themselves from their oppression Marinus to be a hermit on Monte Titano, the emperor and the pope, and reiterated so in the form of an origin Speak to the claim of the Republic of San Marino independence and duty exemption from both the Empire and the Papal State.