Rhipsime

Hripsime also Rhipsima, Armenian Հռիփսիմէ (* in Rome † 300 in Vagharshapat, better known under its former name Etchmiadzin ), is a consecrated virgin and martyr, venerated particularly in the Armenian Apostolic Church as a saint.

Legend

According to tradition, Hripsime to have been the granddaughter or niece of Proto Nike ( Patronike ), the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius and thus have a member of the Julio- Claudian imperial house. This project will have been in a Roman convent nun, where the holy Gaiana was her governess. Because of their beauty Emperor Diocletian Hripsime would have adjusted, so this had fled together with 70 other young women from Rome. In Jerusalem, the Virgin Mary appeared to the young women and instructed them to Edessa. From there they moved on to Armenia, where they shared. 37 young women accompanied Hripsime and Gaiane in the Armenian capital. There the Armenian King Trdat III by a letter of Diocletian. attention to Hripsime and she now wants to wife also. But this will remain a nun and died a martyr's death by beheading. Due to the spectacular steadfastness of the " Beloved of Christ" but king and people of Armenia are led to the Christian faith.

Worship

At the end of the 4th century, their veneration spread in Echmiadzin, mid-5th century it is a church in Echmiadzin built. 618 was built over the burial Hripsimes a Church by Catholicos Komitas, in which there are relics of her. Many other churches were dedicated to her in Armenia, where she became one of the most famous saints.

The Memorial of St.. Hripsime and the Saint. Gaine in the Catholic Church is the 29th of September. In the Orthodox and the Armenian Church her ​​feast day is September 30. The Coptic Church commemorates her on 26 September, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch on September 27.

Some Hripsime churches dedicated to:

  • St. Hripsime Church in Echmiadzin
  • Armenian Church Vienna
  • Chapel in the monastery Goshavank
  • Basilica of 1665 in the valley of Chndsoresk
  • Basilica of 1705 in the village Tandzaver

Representation

Hripsime is presented in monographs, especially in the Armenian Church, where she is mostly seen as a virgin with book and cross. In addition, the representation of the martyrdom of Hripsime and Gaiane occurs.

Exemplary representations in art are:

  • Miniature of the martyrdom Hripsime and Gaiana, Menologion Basil II, the end of the 10th century (Vatican, Cod vat. Gr 1613, fol. 75)
  • Fresco on a pillar in the church of Schamatun Varagavank
  • Diakonion Church of the Redeemer at the Nerediza, Russia, in 1200
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