 Calcia, frightened that her husband would interpret this multiple birth as a sign of infidelity, ordered her servant Sila to drown the girls in the Miñor River.Disobeying her mistress, Sila, secretly a Christian, left Calcia's daughters in the care of several families.Marina and her sisters were baptized by the Bishop of Braga Saint Ovidius (Ovid, Ovidio) and brought up in the Christian faith.