Saint Corin Frostmartyr
Virgin-Martyr of the Persecutions
Saint Corin Frostmartyr (a woman, not to be confused with the apostle Corin the Coldstone) is among the most venerated virgin-martyrs of the Great Persecutions. A young noblewoman of the warm south who took the The Frostmark in secret, she refused both marriage to a Calorian magistrate and the burning of incense to the sun, confessing the Cold before the tribunal.
The Whitening of Ice
The legend tells that she was condemned to be thawed to death in a heated bath, “that the cold maiden might be warmed” — yet the water would not warm while she prayed, and frost-flowers bloomed on the walls. She was at last given the Whitening by the sword on a midwinter day, “and a sudden snow fell upon the warm city, though it was a land that knew no snow.” Her name became a byword for purity kept cold against the world’s heat.
Veneration
Patroness of young women, of chastity and constancy, and of converts in hostile households; invoked against unwanted heat and coercion. Her feast falls in the depth of winter; brides wear her frost-lily.