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Martyr · 17th century

Nine Kherkheulidze Brothers and the Martyrs of Marabda

Also known as the Kherkheulidze martyrs · Martyrs of Marabda

Nine brothers of the Kherkheulidze family, with their mother and sister and a great host of Georgian Christians, who fell in 1625 defending their faith and people against the Persian invasion.

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Notes

Named group commemorated as one.

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