Germane Jajanidze

Saint Germane Jajanidze was born in 1868 in the Kutaisi province of Georgia, the son of Besarion, and was archpriest of the cathedral of Saint David the Builder in Kutaisi. During the repressions of 1924 he was shot by representatives of the Soviet authorities on 1 September, in the Sapichkhia forest near Kutaisi, together with Metropolitan Nazari and other clergy, after the August uprising against the Soviets.

He was numbered among the holy martyrs by the Orthodox Church of Georgia in 1994 to 1995, together with Metropolitan Nazari, the priests Ierotheos and Simon, and the protodeacon Besarion. Soviet terror also made a victim of his son, the engineer Mikheil Jajanidze (1900 to 1937). The martyrs of 1924 are commemorated on 14 August (new style; 27 August on the Julian calendar of Georgia).