Gamaliel Pavaloiu of Neamt

Gamaliil Păvăloiu, born in 1899 in Vrancea, was a monk at Neamț Monastery, a printer and book distributor, self-⁠taught. He fell asleep on 9 April 1998, at ninety-⁠nine. He is named in the Romanian Paterikon and venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.

He was the son of humble, God-⁠loving parents. In 1923 he entered the Neamț community and was tonsured a monk, with the name Gamaliil. In 1925 the monastery bought a new printing press, where, having the gift of writing and spiritual teaching, he wrote numerous books of Orthodox teaching. For more than twenty years he printed at Neamț hundreds of thousands of religious books and pamphlets of all kinds, which he distributed personally through the monastery bookshop, becoming known throughout the country. This was his most important obedience until 1960. By day he corrected manuscripts and distributed church books, and at night he took part in the services in church.

When the press was closed, in 1960, he devoted the rest of his life to obedience and the services of day and night, never absent from church until the end. In 1997, weakened by old age, he was taken to the monastery infirmary, and on 9 April 1998 he gave up his soul in peace into Christ's hands, at ninety-⁠nine.