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A stonemason who climbed a mountain to escape persecution and built a chapel - then accidentally founded the world's oldest surviving republic.
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Religious Figures born in the 270s 6
About this person
According to hagiographical accounts recorded centuries after his death, Marinus was a Christian saint who in 301 established a chapel and monastery. From that initial community grew the state of San Marino. The details of his life remain thin, filtered through legend and written long after the fact, but the settlement he began on that mountain endured where empires did not.
Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 275 to 366 · aged 91
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29 languages
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