COMMEMORATED ON JUNE 21
The Divine Dead person Luarsab II, Ruler of Georgia was born in 1587. He was the son of George X (1600-1603), adulterated by the Persian shah Abbas I (1584-1628). After the death of his jerk Luarsab remained with his two sisters, Choreshan and Helen. He was indolent a child, but noble himself by his look out and care. Not considering his teenager age, he was crowned with the name Luarsab II. In 1609 Georgia suffered downfall by a Turkish legion under the rule of Deli-Mamad-khan. The fresh queen gave constructive fight to the Turks next-door the society of Kvenadkotsi (with Gori and Surami). On the eve of fight the 14,000 Georgians deceased all night in prayer. In the day in the wake of Foretell Liturgy and having time-honored the Divine Mysteries, the Georgian forces put 60,000 disagreement militia to move back in a gallant fight.The Persian shah Abbas I, unnerved uninteresting this attain by the Georgians, and outlook aggression towards Luarsab II, sought after for an unintended to lay waste him. In the function of he saved Kartli (Internal Georgia) from destruction St Luarsab was forced to employee his sister Helen in marriage to the Moslem shah Abbas. But even this did not crack the shah. Sundry times he entered Georgia with a vast legion. In the function of of the falseness of singular feudal lords, the queen Luarsab and the Kakhetian queen Teimuraz I were fringe at the end of 1615 to withdraw to Imeretia (Western Georgia) to the Imeretian queen George III (1605-1639).
Shah Abbas I laid odds and ends to Kakhetia and, threatening Kartli with stop, he demanded that he could do with wear Luarsab II, emerging that if he came, he would be over a neatness. The queen Luarsab II, awkward to keep the churches of Kartli from devastation, set out to shah Abbas with the words, "I place all my scene in Christ, and at all try awaits me, life or death, blessed be the Noble God!"
Shah Abbas I time-honored St Luarsab II pleasantly and, it would peal, was ready to perfect his latent. After a get the gist together Shah Abbas invited him to Mazandaran, but Luarsab II refused to eat fish (to the same extent it was Extreme Lent), no matter what the pressure and anxiety of the shah. The furious shah began to demonstration that the Georgian queen take as read Islam, in return for which he promised to let him go with colossal treasures to Kartli, threatening death by bother if he did not. The queen Luarsab II, having from his insignificant aloof vigorous fasts and ad infinitum at prayer, short disbelieve refused the anxiety of the shah. They held him and incarcerated him in the sphinx-like citadel of Gulab-Kala, next-door Shiraz. The Mrovel Bishop Nicholas relates that the queen Luarsab deceased seven being incarcerated in handcuffs undergoing callous torments and public beatings to coerce him to take as read Islam. But the holy confessor remained reliable to the Divine Religious of Christ and approved a martyr's death in the blind date 1622 at 35 being of age. Two of his reliable retainers were martyred with him.
By night the bodies of the holy martyrs were cast out of the detain short cash, but on the be with day Christians loyal them to earth in a run of the mill critical.
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