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The Annunciation: An Excerpt from the Incarnation Poems of Martha Marchina

December 11th, 2025 | 3 min read

By Elspeth Currie

To Marvel More: Holy Attention in the Incarnation Poems of Martha Marchina presents the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany poems of a seventeenth century neo-Latin poet, Martha Marchina, with English translations and devotional commentary.

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Elspeth Currie

Elspeth Currie is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Boston College, where she studies women in Renaissance Europe, and a former high school Latin teacher.