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Also known as Saint Shushanik, Saint Susanna

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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Died
1927
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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
Occupation
consort
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
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.