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Saint Nino

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Early Christian saint

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Saint Nino was a male composer from Italy. His musical work is categorized within the classical genre, as well as easy listening soundtracks and musicals, film composer, and film score. He is associated with five works.

Born on January 1, 296, Saint Nino died on January 27, 335.

Synthesized by Vinony from 10 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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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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.