Confessor · 13th century
Saint Tsotne Dadiani the Confessor
Also known as Tsotne Dadiani
A Georgian prince who, when his fellow nobles were seized and tortured by the Mongols for plotting to free their land, came of his own will and stripped himself to share their torments, and by this love so astonished the Mongols that they let them all go.
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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints