Uguale agli Apostoli Nina

Description: The saint is represented in the iconographic version, which is called Holy Equal to the Apostles Nina, the enlightener of Georgia. The figure is dressed in traditional Greek attire. In the right hand raised in a gesture of blessing - a cross made of grapevine, in the left - a scroll. Nina’s father was a relative of St. George the Victorious, and his mother a sister of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. From the stories of pilgrims Nina learned about the inhabitants of pagan Iberia (Georgia) and in her soul there appeared a desire to convert the inhabitants of this country to Christianity. Once, in a dream, the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to her, she presented a cross from a vine and ordered to go to enlighten the pagans. Nina went to Iberia. Thanks to the sermons of Equal to the Apostles Nina, the number of believers was constantly increasing.