Venerable Martyr
Gabriel of Gareja
Monk of Gareja
A Georgian monk of Gareja, who died a martyr for the faith.
Life
Holy Venerable Martyr Gabriel of Gareja laboured in the Gareja desert at the end of the seventeenth century, in the time of the abbacy of Venerable Onuphrius Machutadze, together with the hieromonk Shio, with David, with Paul and the other brethren. He died between the years 1696 and 1700, savagely killed, with the others, during a raid by a band of Lezgin robbers.
The venerable one is commemorated on 14 June. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church. The Azbyka page preserves no other details of his life.
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