Tsotne Dadiani | |
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.jpg) Tsotne Dadiani as a child with his parents. A fresco from the Khobi Monastery | |
| Saint Tsotne Dadiani the Confessor | |
| Born | Kingdom of Georgia |
| Died | c. 1260 |
| Venerated in | Georgian Orthodox Church |
| Canonized | 1999 by Patriarch Ilia II |
| Feast | 12 August (30 July) |
Tsotne Dadiani (Georgian: ცოტნე დადიანი) (died c. 1260) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Dadiani and one of the leading political figures in the time of Mongol ascendancy in Georgia. Around 1246, he was part of a failed plot aimed at overthrowing the Mongol hegemony, but survived arrest and torture in captivity that befell upon his fellow conspirators when their designs to stage a rebellion was betrayed to the Mongols. A story from the medieval Georgian annals relating Tsotne's insistence on sharing his accomplices' fate that moved the Mongols to mercy made him a popular historical figure and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church.