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John Tornike
Georgian general and saint
Feast: 12 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
John Tornike (Georgian: იოანე თორნიკე, romanized: ioane tornik'e; Greek: Ιωάννης Τορνίκιος), also known as Tornike Eristavi (Georgian: თორნიკე ერისთავი; died in 985) was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos in modern-day northeastern Greece.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q515564 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — John Tornike (CC BY-SA)
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