Saint Nino
Early Christian saint (296–335)
- Fame56.5
- Momentum4.7
- Religious Figures rank#193
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- Fame56.5
- Momentum4.7
- Religious Figures rank#193
- Wikipedia9.7K
Lived 296–335, aged 39Turkey
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Updated 2026-06-08
She arrived in fourth-century Iberia with a grapevine cross and left an entire kingdom Christian. The woman who converted Georgia — then the pagan Kingdom of Iberia — is remembered not for royal blood or scholarly training, but for surviving a massacre at fourteen and walking into foreign territory with a vision and a vine.
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Born to a Greek-speaking Roman family in Cappadocia and said to be a relative of Saint George, Nino served at fourteen as a lady-in-waiting to a Christian noblewoman whom Emperor Diocletian wanted to marry. The woman refused; all fled; all were killed but Nino, who hid and lived. Tradition holds that the Virgin Mary appeared to her afterward, handed her a cross made of grapevine, and sent her north to Iberia. She went, preached, and worked healings that reached the queen, Nana, then the pagan king Mirian III — who, blinded and lost on a hunt, prayed to "Nino's God" and found his way back. Arou…
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