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Miriam, King of Georgia

MIRIAM, RE DI GEORGIA

By Agostino Amore

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Also known as: Mirian III of Georgia, Mirian III of Iberia, Mirian III; Italian: Mirian

MIRIAM, King of Georgia. - B. in 265 of the Sassanid family of Persia, d. in 342.

A strong and daring warrior, he married at the age of 15 a certain Nana.

During his reign, through the apostolate of a holy virgin named Nina, of Armenian origin, who had fled the persecutions of her country, Georgia embraced the Christian religion. M., moved by the prodigies that Nina worked, by the example of his wife and perhaps also by political reasons, asked the emperor Constantine and St. Gregory the Illuminator for priests to instruct his people. He built some churches and labored greatly so that the ecclesiastical hierarchy might also be established. The Georgian Church venerates him as a saint.

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BIBL.: Rufinus, Hist. eccl., I, 10; Socrates, Hist. eccl., I, 20; Sozomen, Hist. eccl., II, 7; A. Palmieri, La Chiesa georgiana e le sue origini, in Bessarione, 1 (1901), pp. 397-403; 2 (1902), pp. 188-204, 333-43; 4 (1904), pp. 17-25, 117-24.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), col. 1079.

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Amore, Agostino. “Miriam, re di georgia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1079. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/miriam-re-di-georgia.

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Amore, Agostino. “Miriam, re di georgia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1079. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/miriam-re-di-georgia.

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  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Miriam, re di georgia},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VIII},
  pages     = {1079},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/miriam-re-di-georgia}
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