Author: Mamist'valisvili, Eldar
Title: K'ristes kvart'is istoria
Description: Gori [Georgia], Goris saxelmcip'o universite, 2003. orig. wrappers. 20x14cm, 191 pp.. Textual illustrations.. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Bilingual Georgian-Russian text. The Georgian text portion runs pp 3-93; the Russian text [titled 'Istoriia khitona Gospodnia'] runs pp 94-177. Includes 6pp facsimile illustrations. A study of the legend of the Holy Coat [aka the Seamless Robe of Jesus] in the Georgian Orthodox Church. ["...According to the tradition of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the chiton was acquired by a Jewish Rabbi from Georgia named Elioz (Elias), who was present in Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion and bought the robe from a soldier. He brought it with him when he returned to his native town of Mtskheta, Georgia, where it is preserved to this day beneath a crypt in the Patriarchal Svetitskhoveli Cathedral. The feast day in honor of the ' Chiton of the Lord' is celebrated on October 1. A portion of the himation was also brought to Georgia, but it was placed in the treasury of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, where it remained until the seventeenth century. Then the Persian Shah Abbas I, when he invaded Georgia, carried off the robe. In order to ingratiate himself with Tsar Michael Feodorovich, the Shah sent the robe as a gift to Patriarch Philaret (1619–1633) and Tsar Michael in 1625. The authenticity of the robe was attested by Nectarius, Archbishop of Vologda, by Patriarch Theophanes of Jerusalem and by Joannicius the Greek. Reports also circulated at that time of miraculous signs being worked through the relic..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Caucasus, Mc'xet'a, Georgia, Eastern Orthodox, Church History, Judaism, History of Religion, ,