Name
Nino, Enlightener of Georgia
Saint ID
S00072
Reported Death Not Before
320
Reported Death Not After
340
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Missionaries, Virgins
| ID | Title | E00121 | Movsēs Xorenac'i's History of Armenia (2.91) recounts the final days and death of *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251), the recovery of his relics, and their burial in the village of T'ordan. Written in Armenian and traditionally considered a 5th c. text, but probably of the early 8th c. | E00520 | Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History (1.21), narrates the conversion of Caucasian Iberia, with accompanying miracles, effected by an unnamed captive woman [later identified in the Georgian tradition as *Nino (Enlightener of Georgia, S00072)]. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/446, based closely on the earlier Latin account by Rufinus of Aquileia [E01402]. | E00613 | Movsēs Xorenac'i's History of Armenia (2.8) recounts the story, set in the early 4th c., of the conversion of Iberia (Georgia) through the work of *Nunē/Nino (enlightener of Georgia, S00072), here presented as a companion of the Armenian martyr *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin,S00071), aided by *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251). Written in Armenian and traditionally considered a 5th c. text, but probably of the early 8th c. | E01138 | The Conversion of Georgia recounts the conversion of Kartli/Iberia/Georgia and its royal family by *Nino (S00072), accompanying miracles, and her death and posthumous miracles. Written in Georgian, in the Holy Land or at Mtskheta, possibly in the 7th c. | E01402 | Rufinus of Aquileia, in his Church History (10.11), recounts the conversion of Iberia (eastern Georgia) by an unnamed captive woman, [identified as *Nino (S00072) in later Georgian texts], with subsequent miracles, including the miraculous raising of a column. Written in Latin in Aquileia (northern Italy), c. 402. | E02907 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 14 January, in the church of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), *Nino (Enlightener of Georgia, S00072) and *Hermylos and Stratonikos (martyrs of Singidunum, S01814). |
|---|