Abo Tbileli, or Habo Tbileli (Abo/Habo of Tbilisi; in Georgian: აბო თბილელი, ჰაბო ტფილელი) (ca. 756-786) is the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia. Events Abd-ar-rahman I conquers Iberia and establishes a new Umayyad dynasty. ... Events A council is organized in Constantinople, but disturbed by soldiers Beatus of Liebana, Spanish monk, publishes his Births Emperor Saga of Japan Emperor Junna of Japan Deaths See also Intel Pentium4 Categories: 786 ... In several forms of Christianity, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. ... Tbilisi downtown View of Tiflis from the Grounds of Saint David Church, ca. ...

Arab by descent, he grew up Muslim in Baghdad. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he found himself in Tbilisi, having followed Georgian Prince Nerses, the ruler of Kartli. Nerses, having been slandered before the Caliph, spent three years in confinement; freed by a new Caliph, he took Abo with him. There are three factors which may assist to varying degrees in determining whether someone is considered Arab or not: Political: whether they live in a country which is a member of the Arab League (or, more vaguely, the Arab world); this definition covers more than 300 million people. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ... Tbilisi downtown View of Tiflis from the Grounds of Saint David Church, ca. ... Kartli is the largest and most populated province of Eastern Georgia. ... Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...

He became convinced of Christianity, but was afraid to convert openly as Georgia was under Arab rule. For political reasons, his prince had to seek shelter in Khazaria north of the Caspian Sea, an area free of Muslim control; Abo accompanied him, and was baptized there. The prince and his party returned to Tbilisi in 782, and for a few years Abo lived quietly as a "closet" Christian. However, in 786 he was exposed as a Christian, and tried for being a renegade from Islam. He confessed his faith at trial, was imprisoned, and martyred on January 6, 786. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ... The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ... Events Alcuin becomes teacher to Charlemagne and his court. ... Events A council is organized in Constantinople, but disturbed by soldiers Beatus of Liebana, Spanish monk, publishes his Births Emperor Saga of Japan Emperor Junna of Japan Deaths See also Intel Pentium4 Categories: 786 ... January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events A council is organized in Constantinople, but disturbed by soldiers Beatus of Liebana, Spanish monk, publishes his Births Emperor Saga of Japan Emperor Junna of Japan Deaths See also Intel Pentium4 Categories: 786 ...

Ioane Sabanisdze, Georgian religious writer and St Abo’s contemporary, compiled the Martyr’s life in his hagiographic novel “The Martyrdom of Saint Abo”. Hagiography is the study of saints. ...

See also

• List of Georgians

Alternate meaning: List of people from the State of Georgia (United States) The following is a partial list of prominent people from the country Georgia, arranged chronologically within categories. ...

External Link

• The Martyrdom of Abo, the Perfumer from Baghdad (http://www.um-islam.nm.ru/abo-eng.htm:)

• http://www.stjohndc.org/stjohndc/English/Saints/9801c.htm