Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Sanislău. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2010)
Marna Nouă
with the transept is marked at the roof level by a dome, provided at the top with a lantern tower. Inside, the altar is made of white marble, decorated with golden ornaments, it has the shape of a gable with triangular tympanum on the upper side. The altar painting represent, according to the church feast, the Holy Virgin. Marna Nouă The village is one of the newest locality of Satu Mare County, being settled following the 1921 agrarian reform. Between 1924 and 1925, over 40 families arrived here from Mărişel and Bica Română, villages of Cluj County. They settled the territory, which was owned by Count Joseph Dégenfeld, before 1918. The villagers still preserve the memory of the origin of village name: the far away Marna River in France, where, according to local tradition, villagers of the Apuseni Mountains, fought during the World War I. No more than two decades after its creation, during the fall of 1940, after the annexation of the Northern Transylvania to Hungary, the villagers of Marna Nouă were forced to take refuge in Romania. They returned to Satu Mare County only at the end of the World War II, in 1945. The church of the vil-Cruce Kereszt Cross 41
