Peter the Iberian
Georgian saint
Feast: 2 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Peter the Iberian (Georgian: პეტრე იბერი, romanized: p'et're iberi) (c. 417–491) was a Georgian royal prince, theologian and philosopher who was a prominent figure in early Christianity and one of the founders of Christian Neoplatonism. Some have claimed that he is the author known conventionally as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Severus of Antioch Saint Pupil“After his baptism at the Church of Saint Leontius, Severus became a monk and entered the monastery of Peter the Iberian near Maiuma, which was a center of non-Chalcedonianism.” — Wikipedia
- Dionysius the Areopagite Saint“Some have claimed that he is the author known conventionally as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.” — Wikipedia
- Zeno the Prophet Saint“He was disciple of the hermit Silvanus of Gaza, became the spiritual guide of the famous Georgian Peter the Iberian and is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church on 19 June.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q928092 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Peter the Iberian (CC BY-SA)
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