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Saint Vakhtang Gorgasali King of Georgia

Also known as Vakhtang I of Kartli

King of Kartli who defended and strengthened Christian Georgia amid Persian, Ossetian, and Byzantine pressures.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints