Shio of Mgvime

Venerable Shio of Mgvime is commemorated by the Georgian Orthodox Church several times a year. Saint John of Zedazeni and his twelve disciples, among them Shio, are commemorated on 7 May; Shio's repose on 9 May; and on Cheese-⁠fare Thursday the Church celebrates the miracle that, for centuries, occurred each year at the saint's grave.

The nineteenth-⁠century historian Marie Brosset wrote that every year before the eighteenth century, on Cheese-⁠fare Thursday, the relics of Saint Shio rose up out of the ground from the place where they were buried, and those who approached them in faith and reverence received healing of their afflictions. In the eighteenth century the Persian shah Nadir (1736 to 1747) invaded Georgia. Hearing of the miracle and becoming convinced of its truth, the enraged shah assailed the monastery and destroyed the shrine containing the saint's relics. Some Christians later gathered Shio's relics and reburied them in their former place, but they have never risen again. In this calendar Shio of Mgvime is listed on 3 March (new style; 16 March on the old calendar).