Razhden the Protomartyr
saint
Feast: 3 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Razhden (Georgian: რაჟდენი, romanized: razhdeni, also transliterated as Ražden or Rajden; died c. 457 AD) was a 5th-century Persian nobleman in the service of the Georgian king Vakhtang I of Iberia and a convert to Christianity who was executed by the Sassanid military in Iberia. He was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as St. Razhden the Protomartyr (რაჟდენ პირველმოწამე, razhden pirvelmotsame), with his feast day marked on August 16 (O.S. August 3).
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Vakhtang I of Iberia Saint“457 AD) was a 5th-century Persian nobleman in the service of the Georgian king Vakhtang I of Iberia and a convert to Christianity who was executed by the Sassanid military in Iberia.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q3650667 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Razhden the Protomartyr (CC BY-SA)
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