King Mirian’s conversion to Christianity and - of the whole Kartli, by Saint Nino the apostle, our Holy mother (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. I, 1955)

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Author	Leonti Mroveli
Epoch	XI c.
Work	King Mirian’s conversion to Christianity and - of the whole Kartli, by Saint Nino the apostle, our Holy mother (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. I, 1955)
Type	Prose
Quote	“Then King Mirian sent bishop John and one nobleman to King Constantine and asked for a fragment of cross (on which Jesus Christ was crucified, E.K.), which the devout Queen Helena had just happened to become in possession of […]. “When they came to Caesar Constantine, he gladly granted them a fragment of the Cross […] and sent priests and many carpenters along with them: as king Constantine had built a Holy Church during his kingdom, five hundred God’s temples”. (pg. 117)
Term	Constantine the Great ( Constantine Caesar ) Queen Helena ( )

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Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.

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