Germans will soon be able to read about Georgian saints in their own language

Tbilisi, June 21, 2018

    

The wonder and glory of Georgian Orthodoxy, less well known around the world than its Greek and Russian counterparts, will soon be revealed, at least in part, to the German people.

Three works of Georgian hagiography are soon to appear in the German language, reports Georgia Online, with reference to the initiator of the project, “The National Center of the Georgian Book.”

The forthcoming publication will contain three works: “The Martyrdom of Shushanik,” a Georgian princess who preferred martyrdom to apostatizing to paganism, “The Martyrdom of Abo of Tbilisi,” a convert to Orthodoxy who bravely preached the Gospel to Muslims, and “The Martyrdom of Evstati of Mtskheta,” a former pagan who preferred martyrdom to returning to paganism.

The collected volume will be published by the German publishing house Leipzig Literaturverlag.

Georgia’s multitude of venerable monastics, clergy, righteous ones, and martyrs and confessors can be read about in English in Lives of the Georgian Saints by Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze, published by St. Herman Press.

More than 100 of the lives can be read on OrthoChristian.com here.

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6/21/2018

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