🇹🇷 🇬🇪 🇻🇦 Saint Nino Feast: 14 January

 

   Saint Nino
Slave & Evangelist (  4th Century A.D.)              Feast: 14 January

According to legend, St. Nino was a slave girl who was responsible for the evangelization of the kingdom of Georgia . A foreign captive, most likely from Armenia  she attracted attention as a result of her virtue & her habit of spending much of the night in prayer 

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When anyone questioned Nino , she answered that she worshiped Christ as God. Offering blessings in Christ's name  she was credited with a number of miraculous healings  On one occasion the queen of Georgia  was herself a beneficiary of Nino's gifts. This led to an interview with the king in which she once again attributed all her powers to Christ . Both the king & queen begged her to instruct them in the Christian faith  This she did.

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Later Nino oversaw the construction of the first church in Georgia  👷‍♀️ ⛪  an accomplishment attended by further miracles. As was typical in such cases, the conversion of the king 🤴 led to the wholesale conversion of his kingdom. This created a widespread demand for religious instruction, which the king answered by entreating Emperor Constantine to send clergy. 

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As for Nino, having won her freedom she retired to a remote cell in the mountains 🏔️  where she spent the rest of her life in prayer 🙏 

"It is not my work but Christ 's; and He is the Son of God who made the world."

-St. Nino

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