Venerable Martyr
Otar of Gareji
Monk of Gareji
One of the monks of the Monastery of Saint David at Gareji who suffered in 1851.
Life
Holy Venerable Martyr Otar of Gareji was a monk-deacon of the David Gareji desert, in Georgia, killed by Lezgins in the summer of 1851, together with six other fathers: Gerontius, Serapion, Germanus, Bessarion, Michael, Simon and Otar. At that time a great band of Lezgins fell upon the David Gareji Lavra, and the monks were tortured and killed. After their death a great light descended upon the martyrs. They are commemorated on 12 August, old style (25 August, new style). The account of their sufferings was written by the monk Isaac of Gaenati, who had been taken captive with them.
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