Saint Nino
The Holy Nino ( Nina, Nona, Christiana, Chrischona; Georgian წმინდა ნინო; * 325 probably in Cappadocia or Italy; † around 361 in Bodbe, Kakheti, Georgia) was a missionary and healer who initiated the conversion of the Georgians to Christianity. The Georgian Orthodox Church of the Apostles it is equal to the apostles, and calls them the " Illuminator of Georgia ".
Life
The Christian Nino fled in Cappadocia, Central Anatolia from slavery and wandered over the Lesser Caucasus to Iberia (Georgia) a. There they lived first in the capital Mtskheta in a hut. They earned a reputation as a knowledgeable herbal healer. Was as a sick child by the standard local custom carried through the streets in order to find healing, she took the child to be made it healthy with prayer and gave it back to the mother. When the terminally ill Georgian Queen Nana learned it, they had to bring Nino and was also cured of it.
King Mirian III. wanted to reward them with gold and silver, but Nino refused. She referred to their God, who had given her the strength to heal. As Mirian was surprised on a hunt of an eclipse, he promised after futile prayers to the traditional gods, he will worship God Ninos if he would exempt from his plight. Mirian brought Christianity 337 ( according to the Georgian Orthodox Church of the Apostles 326 view ) as the state religion, sent to Ninos recommendation an envoy to Emperor Constantine I. to Constantinople Opel and asked to send Christian priests to Georgia.
Nino later lived as a hermit in the Caspian mountains in or near a Cappadocian monastery. 361 she fell ill on the way back from Tusheti, an area in eastern Georgia, at their place of residence. She died in Bodbe in the Region Kakheti and was buried there. King Mirian built a church over her grave. Later there was an Orthodox monastery, Ninotsminda founded. Bodbe monastery now houses the women religious convent of Saint George. The source of Nino is considered one of the holiest places in Georgia, the source version located in a ravine below the monastery Bodbe serves as Taufplatz, the source water are healing powers attributed.
Nino is always a grapevine cross have borne with him, which was held together by your own hair. It is now kept in the Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi. Ninos performance was first mentioned in 403 in Tyrannius Rufinus Historia Ecclesiastica (X, 11), who had heard her life story 395 in Jerusalem by the Georgian Prince Bakur. However, Rufinus mentioned her name, but only that it was a woman who came as prisoners to Georgia. The name Nino was first mentioned in the 960-970 in Schatberdi monastery (now Yeni Rabat in Ardanuç in the northeast of Turkey) resulting collection of manuscripts (S -1141 ) The conversion Kartlis ( Georgia ).
Armenian hagiographers portrayed Nino (Armenian Nune ) as a Missionary of Armenia in the wake of the Armenian Martyr Hripsime as a niece of the Jerusalem Patriarch Juvenal, a relative of Saint George or as a Roman princess.
The Georgian government has Nino in 1994 honored by a created by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli monument in the capital Tbilisi.
Sister Congregation
Nino is the saint of the Catholic order founded in 1807 Sta. Christiana (also sisters of the holy childhood of Jesus and Mary ), in Europe, America and Africa, the education and health care is devoted to.
Anniversaries
Your orthodox observances are October 27 and 14 January, the Catholic is December 15. The Armenian Gregorian Church commemorates her on October 29.