Christiana
Martyrological notice
In the country of the Georgians, beyond the Euxine sea, of St. Christiana, a hand-maid, who by miracles converted that nation to the faith of Christ, in the time of Constantine the Great.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 15, December · S. Christiana, Ap. of the Iberians; 3rd cent.
S. Christiana, Ap. of the Iberians; 3rd cent.
S. Euskbius, B. of Vercelli ; arc. a.d. 374.
S. Valerian, B.C. in Africa; a.d. 457.
S. Maximinus, A b. o/Miscy; 6th cent.
S. Adalbrro II., B. of Mete; a.d. 1005.
S. CHRISTIANA, V.
(3RD CENT.)
[Roman Martyrology. Authorities : — Ruffinus, H. E. i. io, and Moses of Chorene. Ruffin us gives as his authority Bacurius, an Iberian petty prince, who joined the Romans, and was made captain of a military force in Palestine, and was afterwards honoured by Theodosius.]
j|HE Iberians, occupying the country now called Georgia, east of the Euxine, were converted by the instrumentality of a slave girl, known in Geor- gian Church history by the name of Nonna or Nina, said to have been bom at Colastri in Cappadocia, daughter of one Zabulon, and the maternal niece of the bishop of Jerusalem, and to have devoted herself, encouraged by visions, to preaching the Gospel in Iberia, whither she pro- ceeded after a missionary tour in Armenia. According to Western versions of her story, she was taken captive by the Iberians, and set an example among them of such conti- nence, prayer, and self-devotion, that she impressed greatly the imaginations of the barbarians. The king's child, a babe, was ill, and Nana the queen sent it to several women reputed charmers, to bewitch it into health. It was taken among others to the maid ; she laid the child on her horse-cloth
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Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Apud Iberos, trans Pontum Euxinum, sanctae Christianae ancillae, quae miraculorum virtute gentem illam, tempore Constantini, ad Christi fidem perduxit.