Shushanik
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Shushanik (; ; 440 – 475), also known as Shushanika or Vardandukht, was a Christian Armenian woman who was tortured to death by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr. Her martyrdom is described in her confessor Jacob’s hagiographic work, the oldest extant work of Georgian language literature. The hagiography details Shushanik's extensive resistance to imprisonment, isolation, torture and cruelty.
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- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1927
- Works
- 5
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Shushanik
- Saint.birth_date
- c. 440
- Saint.feast_day
- October 17 (Eastern Orthodox), September 20–26 (Armenian Apostolic and Eastern Catholic)
- Saint.venerated_in
- Eastern Orthodox ChurchArmenian Apostolic ChurchEastern Catholic Churches
- Saint.image
- Shushanik.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 200px
- Saint.birth_place
- Armenia
- Saint.death_place
- Tsurtavi, Georgia
- Saint.titles
- Great martyr, Queen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Spouse
- Varsken of Gogarene
- Father
- Vardan Mamikonian
- Occupation
- consort
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Family
- Mamikonian
- Noble title
- queen consort
- Image
- Shushanik.jpg
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- date of death
- 0475-10-18
- Commons category
- Saint Shushanik
- canonization status
- saint
- date of birth
- 0440-00-00
- birth name
- Վարդենի Մամիկոնյան
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- feast day
- October 17
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- social classification
- noble
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Shushanik (; ; 440 – 475), also known as Shushanika or Vardandukht, was a Christian Armenian woman who was tortured to death by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr. Her martyrdom is described in her confessor Jacob’s hagiographic work, the oldest extant work of Georgian language literature. The hagiography details Shushanik's extensive resistance to imprisonment, isolation, torture and cruelty.
According to this legend, Shushanik was a daughter of the Armenian military commander Vardan Mamikonian and married the Mihranid ruler (pitiakhsh) Varsken, son of Arshusha II. Varsken was a defiant vassal of Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Kartli (Iberia), and took a pro-Persian position, renouncing Christianity and adopting Zoroastrianism. He killed Shushanik after she refused to submit to his order to abandon her Christian faith. Varsken himself was killed by King Vakhtang in 482.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shushanik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.