Venerable Martyr
Michael of Gareja
Monk of Gareja
A Georgian monk of Gareja, who died a martyr for the faith.
Life
Holy Venerable Martyr Michael of Gareja was a monk in the Davit Gareja desert in Georgia. In the summer of 1851 a large band of Dagestanis attacked the desert, plundered the monastery, took prisoner the hieromonks Gerontius and Serapion and the monks Herman, Bessarion, Michael, Otar and Simon, and put them to death as martyrs. The suffering of the fathers of Davit Gareja was described in 1853 by the hieromonk Isaac of Gelati, a living witness of the raid.
The Azbyka page notes that his name is not found in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. Michael is commemorated on 25 August, according to the Georgian calendar.
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