Shio-Mgvime monastery

Shio-Mgvime monastery, originally uploaded by leluchi.

Shio-Mgvime monastery
Georgia.2009

According to a historic tradition, the first monastic community at this place was founded by the 6th-century monk Shio, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia as Christian missionaries. St. Shio is said to have spent his last years as a hermit in a deep cave near Mtskheta subsequently named Shiomghvime ("the Cave of Shio") after him.