Holy Great Martyr Irene was the daughter of a high official Roman, Licinius, who had

birth name Penelope. To avoid being kidnapped because she was beautiful, his
father built a tower, outside the city, where he lived closed together with other
virgins in very great riches. He received the Christian faith from the old Apelian,
which was set by her father to teach her book, and was baptized by St. Timothy,
who she named Irina. But his father, angered by deed Irina subjected it to torment.
But faith made him his daughter and the whole family to receive Christian baptism.
Holy was subjected to torture and followers of his father, Zedekiah governors and
Sapor, managed to bring many pagans to Christ. Escaping miraculously torment, he
went to preach Christ through the cities, reaching and Calinicon. At Ephesus he met
her old teacher, Apelian. Here he gave his soul to God alone.