Saint Salome the Georgian, Martyred by the Persians (XIII)

Information about Saint Salome the Georgian is given by the synaxarion of the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem: “On this same day (20 July), the martyrdom of Salome the Georgian, who first was led astray by the Persians and denied Christ. After this she again confessed the faith of Christ, and her head was cut off, and her martyrdom was completed by fire.”

Metropolitan Timote (Gabashvili) notes in his “Pilgrimage” that “there (that is, in the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem) the holy martyr Salome suffered, for the lawless seized her and would have forced her to forsake her faith, but the brave woman mocked their faith. After this they tortured that most blessed one with fire and sword.” It seems that Salome the Georgian was a woman labouring in a women’s house in Jerusalem. It is supposed that she was martyred after the martyr’s end of Saint Luke of Jerusalem (+1227, commemorated 12 February).