Therinus

{{Short description|Greek saint}} {{Infobox saint |name=Therinus of Buthrotum |honorific_prefix=Saint |born_in= |birth_date= |death_date= |feast_day=April 23 |venerated_in=Eastern Orthodox Church<br>Catholic Church |image=%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B7_-_%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1_0905.jpg |imagesize= |caption=Saint Therinus (middle), depicted in a mosaic inside the Rotunda of Thessaloniki. |birth_place=Buthrotum, Epirus Vetus, Roman Empire (modern Butrint, Albania) |death_place= |titles=Martyr |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= |prayer= }} '''Therinus''' ({{langx|sq|Terin}}, Greek: Θερινός),<ref name="Elsie">{{cite journal|last=Elsie|first=Robert|title=The Christian Saints of Albania|journal=Balkanistica |volume=13|publisher=American Association for South Slavic Studies|year=2000|page=36|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/modern_languages/BalkArticle2.html}}</ref> also known as '''Therinus of Buthrotum''', was a Christian saint revered in Albania.

== Life and martyrdom == “The Martyrdom of Therinus” was a manuscript written in Epirus probably during the 5th-8th century AD.<ref name=":0">Nikolaos (2018). E06577: The Greek Martyrdom of *Therinos (martyr of Bouthroton, S00395) is written probably in Bouthroton/Buthrotum (Epirus, western Balkans), and probably at some point from the 5th to the 8th century.. University of Oxford. Online resource. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.13904981.v1</nowiki></ref> It explains during the reign of Roman Emperor Decius, the local governors of Roman provinces were replaced by more brutal ones with the intent of prosecuting more christians.<ref name=":0" /> In the Roman-controlled city of Buthrotum, a new governor, Phillipos, of the province of Thesprotia was confronted by Therinus who professes his faith to Christianity.<ref name=":0" /> Because of this, the governor decides to torture Therinus in multiple various ways and from there, the manuscript was broken off.<ref name=":0" />

In the ending of the Latin version of the manuscript, from all the miraculous salvations of all the tortures that he inflicted upon Therinus, causes the governor to convert. He lives 3 and a half more years before he died<ref name=":0" /> and was massacred during a wave of anti-Christian persecution, most likely at the time of Emperor Decius (r. 249–251). His feast day is celebrated on April 23rd<ref>{{cite book |last=Elsie |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAtQZ0vjf5gC&dq=Saint+Therinus+of+Butrint&pg=PA249 |title=A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology, and folk culture |publisher=NYU Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-8147-2214-8 |page=249}}</ref> and he was buried in a city called ‘Bosrena’.<ref name=":0" /> The city Bosrena is believed to be a corruption of the Greek derived Botrotos (Bouthroton). Another theory proposed was the Arabic city of Bosra, which is highly unlikely.

==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Saints}} * Buthrotum * Donatus of Butrint

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Therinus, Saint}} Category:3rd-century Christian saints Category:Saints of Roman Macedonia Category:People from Buthrotum Category:Year of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Greek saints Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians from Albania Category:Decian persecution