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Venerable-Martyr · 14th century

Martyrs of the Kvabtakhevi Monastery in Georgia

Also known as The Monk-Martyrs of Kvabtakhevi

Monastics and faithful of the Kvabtakhevi Monastery in Georgia who were slain when the armies of Tamerlane invaded and devastated the country's churches and monasteries during the reign of King Bagrat V.

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Notes

Collective martyrdom commemorated as one feast; a named cluster of monastic martyrs.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints