Key facts
- Born
- c. 280s or c. 290s , Kolastra, Cappadocia
- Died
- c. 320s or c. 330s , Bodbe , Kakheti , (modern-day Georgia )
- Venerated in
- Eastern Orthodox Church , Catholic Church , Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Major shrine
- Bodbe Monastery
- Feast
- Entering Kartli , May 19 (New Calendar), June 1 (Old Calendar) , Death , January 14 (New Calendar), January 27 (Old Calendar)
- Attributes
- Grapevine cross
- Patronage
- Georgia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cristiana
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Cappadocia
- Place of death
- Bodbe Monastery
- Occupation
- missionary
- Position held
- apostle
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Image
- St. Nino Icon1.jpg
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- date of death
- 0335-01-27
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Saint Nino
- canonization status
- equal-to-apostles
- date of birth
- 0296-01-01
- different from
- Nino
- feast day
- January 27
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint Nino (sometimes St. Nune, St. Nina or St. Ninny; Georgian: წმინდა ნინო, romanized: ts'minda nino; Armenian: Սուրբ Նունե, romanized: Surb Nune; Greek: Ἁγία Νίνα, romanized: Hagía Nína) was a woman who preached Christianity in the territory of the Kingdom of Iberia in what is now Georgia. Her preaching led to the Christianization of Iberia.
According to most traditional accounts, she belonged to a Greek-speaking Roman family from Kolastra, Cappadocia, was a relative of Saint George, and came to Iberia from Armenia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint Nino” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.