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New Martyr

Gabriel the New Martyr

A new martyr commemorated in the Greek Orthodox calendar.

Feast
May 3old style May 16
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Gabriel the New Martyr is a new martyr commemorated in the Greek Orthodox calendar. The sources at hand do not preserve details of his life, of the place and time in which he suffered, or of how he died.

The Church counts him among the new martyrs who confessed Christ in death after the fall of Constantinople, in the years of Ottoman rule.

Commemorated the same day May 3