Jacob of Tsurtavi
Also: Iakob Tsurtaveli, Hakob Tsurtaveli, Jacob the Priest
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Georgian priest and confessor of the martyr Shushanik; his account of her death is the oldest Georgian book that survives.
Wrote in Georgian.
Places lived
- 466 to 483Tsurtavi (now Kvemo Kartli, Georgia)priestyears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 0 works can be read here.
- Martyrdom of ShushanikHow the Armenian princess Shushanik was held and tortured to death by her husband for keeping her faith.not yet on the site
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik
- Place of birth not known
- D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik
- Died not known
- D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik
- Place of death not known
- D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik
- Tsurtavi, years not sure
- D. M. Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (1956), on the Passion of Shushanik: he was her court priest through her seven years in prison (died 475); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_the_Holy_Queen_Shushanik says only that the writer took part in the events
- Tsurtavi, place probable
- Passion of Shushanik; the exact site in Kvemo Kartli is not sure