COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 10
The 9th century was one of the upper limit inborn periods in Georgian history. The Arab Muslims wreaked destruction finished the feature of Kartli, almost converting tons to Islam with fire and the sword. Copious of the lacking and scared were tempted to accuse the Religious conviction of their fathers.At that time the valorous aristocratic and persistent Christian, Prince Constantine, was living in Kartli. He was the newborn of Kakhetian princes, like so his legend "Kakhi."
As is brand for a Christian devotee, St. Constantine exact himself the top of sinners and commonly imaginary, "Put forward can be no reprieve of my sins, if for the period of the spilling of my blood for the sake of Him Who strip His meaningless blood for us!"
Nevertheless on a pilgrimage to the holy sitting room of Jerusalem, Constantine thin fair gifts to the churches, visited the wilderness of the Jordan, standard blessings from the holy fathers, and returned to his family burdened with inner joy. As that time Constantine would send thirty thousand pieces of silver to Jerusalem each court.
In the excitement 853 to 854, because the Arab Muslims invaded Georgia under the capacity of Buga-Turk, the eighty-five-year-old Prince Constantine commanded the air force of Kartli with his son Tarkhuj.
Emerge the capital of Gori an tremulous clash took place relating the Arabs and the Georgians. Anyway their great defiance, the Georgians suffered stunner, and Constantine and Tarkhuj were diligent detained.
The detained Constantine-Kakhi was sent to Samarra (a capital in vital Iraq) to the caliph Ja'far al Mutawakkil (847-861). Ja'far was well restless of the terrific honor Constantine-Kakhi standard from the Georgians and all the Christian state who knew him. Having standard him with surname, he projected that Constantine effect the Christian Religious conviction and threatened him with death in the mortar of his disclaimer. Strengthened by divine chic, the burly prince fearlessly answered, "Your sword does not frighten me. I am nervous of Him Who can wreck my nature and delegation and Who has the power to revive and to report, for He is the true God, the almighty Self-sufficient, Monarch of the world, and Commence unto all ages!"
The mad caliph standard the beheading of St. Constantine-Kakhi. Bowing on his section, the holy fatality lifted up a back prayer to the Lord. St. Constantine-Kakhi was martyred on November 10, 852, the day on which Great-martyr George is commemorated. The holy martyr's delegation was hung from a high pillar to peril the Christian believers, but on one occasion some time it was out of sight.
A few excitement with a group of persistent Georgians translated St. Constantine's holy ruins to his family and reburied them offer with great surname. In that extremely century the Georgian As the crow flies Church numbered Prince Constantine-Kakhi of Kartli amid the saints.
TROPARION - Boundary 4
Your holy fatality Constantine, O Lord,Through his sufferings has standard an incorruptible diadem from You, our God.For having Your fierceness, he laid low his adversaries,And broken down the incapable nerve of demons.Through his intercessions, stack our souls!
