Birth and Childhood of St. Demiana
Near the end of the third century, there lived a Christian man named Mark. He was the governor of El-Borollos and El-Zaafaran districts in the Northern delta of the Nile River in Egypt. Mark had an only child named Demiana; her beauty and virtuous character were legendary, and her father loved her dearly. Demiana's mother reposed in the Lord when she was a young child, and her father did his utmost to raise her virtuously in Christ. St. Demiana loved to pray and read the holy books in the seclusion of her room.
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