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Konstanti Kakhay or Konstanti Kakhi ((グルジア語:კონსტანტი კახაჲ; კონსტანტი კახი)) (768 – November 10, 853) was a Christian Georgian nobleman from Kartli, who was seized captive by the Abbasid general Bugha al-Kabir during his 853 expedition into the Caucasus. He was subsequently put to death, at the age of 85, for refusing to convert to Islam. This made Kostanti a subject of the contemporaneous hagiography and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church.〔Thomas, David & Roggema, Barbara (ed., 2009), ''Christian-Muslim Relations. a Bibliographical History. Volume 1 (600-900)'', pp. 852-6. BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-16975-3.〕 Kakhay's capture is also documented in a Georgian inscription from the Ateni Sioni church and his death as a martyr is mentioned by the 9th-10th century Armenian chronicler Tovma Artsruni.〔 The Georgian church commemorates him on November 23 (O.S. November 10).〔Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), ("Great-Martyr Constantine-Kakhi (†852)" ), in (''The Lives of the Georgian Saints'' ). ''pravoslavie.ru''. Retrieved on 2011-11-23.〕 ==''The Life and Passion of Kostanti-Kakhay''== Much of Kostanti-Kakhay's biography is known from the hagiorgaphic work ''The Life and Passion of Kostanti-Kakhay'', the full title of which is "the Life and Passion of the Holy Martyr Kostanti the Georgian, who was Martyred by Jafar, King of Babylonians" (ცხორებაჲ და წამებაჲ წმიდისა მოწამისა კოსტანტი ქართველისაჲ, რომელი იწამა ბაბილონელთა მეფისა ჯაფარის მიერ, ''cxorebaj da c'amebaj c'midisa moc'amisa k'ost'ant'isi kartvelisaj, romeli ic'ama babiloelta mepisa dzaparis mier''). Its anonymous author, apparently a monk, identifies himself as a contemporary of Kostanti, saying that the martyr "lived during our time", when Theodora, the Byzantine empress who opposed iconoclasm, reigned as a "servant of God". In the same passage, the author also mentions Theodora's son Michael III (r. 842-67).〔 In general, ''the Life and Passion of Kostanti-Kakhay'' reflects the rise of Byzantine cultural and political influence and of Georgian nationalism. The text incorporates many other narratives and contains several biblical allusions. Its opening phrases are a literal translation from George of Alexandria's ''Life of Saint John Chrysostom'' ( 620), a text otherwise unknown in Georgian until 968. It also echoes several passages from the earlier pieces of Georgian hagiography – the anonymous ''Passion of Eustathius of Mtskheta'' (570s) and Ioane Sabanisdze's ''the Passion of Abo of Tbilisi'' ( 790).〔Rayfield, Donald (2000), ''The Literature of Georgia: A History'', pp. 47-8. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.〕 The earliest extant manuscript of ''the Life and Passion of Kostanti-Kakhay'' dates to the early 18th century. First published by Mikhail Sabinin in 1882, it has been translated into Latin (P. Peeters, 1925),〔Peeters, P. (1925), "De S. Costantino Martyre in Babilonia (commentarius, praevius)". ''Acta Sanctorum'', Novembris, t. IV: 541-554.〕 Russian (N. Vachnadze and K. Kutsia, 1978), and English (M. Abashidze and S.H. Rapp, 2004).〔Abashidze, Medea & Rapp, Stephen H. Jr. (2004), "The Life and Passion of Kostanti-Kaxay". ''Le Muséon'' 17, 1-2: 137-173.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Konstanti Kakhi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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