Venerable
Gaius
A venerable father, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Gaius is known only by a few reports: neither the time nor the place of his life is known. In the canon of Cheesefare Saturday the venerable Gaius is called the wise servant of Christ. His commemoration appears in several Greek verse synaxaria under 31 December, among others in the manuscripts Syn. gr. 354 of 1295 in the Historical Museum in Moscow and Paris. gr. 1582 of the fourteenth century, and from there it entered the Menaion printed at Venice in 1595.
Saint Gaius is commemorated on 13 March, in the Synaxis of All the Venerable Fathers who shone in ascetic struggle, a movable day.