St. Nino's Monastery prepares for the holiday

In Kakheti, in the town of Sighnakhi, the Bodbe Monastery is located. Here from 342 to 347 lived St. Nino, a righteous woman revered in Orthodox Georgia. Here she died. On the place where her tent stood a temple was built, and later a monastery.

The fate of Bodbe Monastery is similar to the fate of other Georgian monasteries: the Persian Shah destroyed - restored, one Russian tsar dispersed the monks - another gathered them. But it was Russian monks who gathered the monks, but it was they who restored the diocese and turned the monastery into the largest in Kakheti.

June 1 is approaching - the day of veneration of St. Nino, who brought Orthodoxy to Georgia. People come on this day to the monastery where the relics of the Saint rest to worship the tomb, to pray, asking for the well-being of themselves and their loved ones, and to bathe in the holy spring that gives health.