6th century) was an anchorite, desert father, thaumaturgus and one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles of the Georgian kingdom of Iberia.

He is venerated as a saint who introduced the notion of a strict ascetic life to the Georgian Church.

At the age of 20, he became a disciple of the famous hermit John of Zedazeni,[3] distributed his property to peasants and monasteries, and became a monk himself.

Monk Shio separated from his brethren and founded the Shio-Mgvime monastery on Sarkine mountain.

Shio performed an extraordinary feats of endurance,[8] by spending the last years of his life in total seclusion, in a 12 metre deep cave,[9] he was buried there.