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Nana of Iberia

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29: 335:. Through Nino's ministry, King Mirian was also converted around 337 and Christianity became an official religion in Iberia. Nana outlived her husband by two years and died, according to Toumanoff's chronology, in 363. She was 291:. Toumanoff has assumed that the name of Nana's father might have been a Georgian corruption of "Olympius" or "Olympus", a Bosporan dynast whose son Aurelius Valerius Sogus Olympianus, a Roman governor of 315:
The medieval Georgian sources relate that Nana had been a staunch pagan and despised Christian preaching until she was miraculously cured of a terrible disease, and subsequently converted, by a
384:"The Feast of the Robe of our Lord, the Myrrh-streaming and Life-giving Pillar, Equals-to-the-Apostles King Mirian and Queen Nana, and Saints Sidonia and Abiatar (4th century)" 522: 552: 386: 295:, is known from a Greek inscription of 306 dedicated to "the Most High God" on the occasion of the building of the Jewish "prayer house". Alternatively, 547: 340: 532: 527: 542: 537: 504: 484: 432: 399: 90: 316: 300: 156: 477:
Continuité des élites à Byzance durante les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle
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by the Georgian church. Nana and Mirian are traditionally considered to have been buried at the
259:, the daughter of Oligotos" whom Mirian married after his first wife died (in 292 according to 500: 480: 428: 324: 256: 228: 192: 178: 117: 28: 304: 280: 272: 264: 145: 122: 77: 403: 390: 260: 331:, also mentions an unnamed queen of the Iberians who was cured by a woman, a Christian 516: 188: 394: 336: 288: 284: 216: 204: 33: 320: 255:
According to the Georgian chronicles, Nana was "from a Greek territory, from
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Toumanoff, Cyril, (1969), Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia.
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Toumanoff, Cyril (1969), Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia.
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The church history of Rufinus of Aquileia, books 10 and 11
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in the 4th century. For her role in the conversion of
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Sarcophagus
Samtavro Monastery
Queen consort of Iberia
Bosporan Kingdom
Kingdom of Iberia
Mirian III of Iberia
Issue
Rev II of Iberia
Aspacures II of Iberia
Dynasty
Tiberian-Julian dynasty
Chosroid dynasty
Tiberius Julius Theothorses
Georgian Orthodox Church
Georgian
Queen consort
Kingdom of Iberia
Mirian III
Georgians
Christianity
Georgian Orthodox Church
saint
canonized
Equal to the Apostles
Georgian
romanized
Pontus
Cyril Toumanoff
Rev II

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