07 — Between Two Churches

Shushanik is venerated by both the Georgian Orthodox (Chalcedonian) and the Armenian Apostolic (non-Chalcedonian) churches — rightly, since she died a century and a half before their division at Dvin (c. 607–610). This section treats the double veneration: its historical basis, the repository’s handling of it (evidential for the history per §4.2, from within Chalcedonian Orthodoxy per §4.1, without polemic against the Armenian memory of a shared pre-division saint), and the feasts in each calendar, with the disputed dates verified and sourced.

Tradition: Georgian Orthodox (shared pre-division veneration with the Armenian Apostolic Church)

Contents

File Description
a-saint-of-the-undivided-caucasus.md The double veneration and its meaning: how both churches inherited her; the pre-Schism-West analogy, mutatis mutandis; the §4.1 standpoint stated without polemic; what claiming her exclusively would falsify
feasts-and-calendars.md The commemorations: the Georgian feast of 28 August (O.S.) / 10 September (N.S.) and the 17 October death-day commemoration; the Armenian calendar’s placements; the discrepancies weighed and pinned to their sources

Summary

The facts are set by Section 01: in 475 the churches of Armenia and Kartli were one communion, and their division belongs to c. 607–610 (Garsoïan, L’Église arménienne, 1999; Loosley Leeming, Medieval Worlds 10, 2019). Shushanik therefore stands on both sides’ calendars by inheritance, not adoption — the Georgian recension and feast on one side, the Armenian recension and menologion on the other (Lang, Lives and Legends, 1976; Maksoudian, trans., Passion, 1997). The first file draws the theological and methodological consequences; the second sorts the calendar data, which are genuinely tangled (28 August, 17 October, and the Armenian placements) and are handled per §4.2 — attested date by attested date.

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