Shio of Mgvime
Georgian saint
Feast: 22 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Shio of Mgvime (Georgian: შიო მღვიმელი, romanized: shio mghvimeli; lit.'Shio of the Cave'), sometimes known as Simeon of Mgvime, was a 6th century anchorite, desert father, thaumaturgus and one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles of the Georgian kingdom of Iberia. He is venerated as a saint who introduced the notion of a strict ascetic life to the Georgian Church.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q3652056 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Shio of Mgvime (CC BY-SA)
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