Venerable Martyr
Paul of Gareja
Monk of Gareja, martyred for the faith of Christ.
Life
Saint Paul of Gareja, a venerable martyr, struggled in the Gareja desert (Georgia) at the end of the seventeenth century, in the time of the abbacy of Saint Onuphrius Machutadze, with the hieromonk Shio, David, Gabriel and the other brethren. He was brutally killed, with the others, in a raid by a band of Lezgin robbers, between the years 1696 and 1700.
Saint Paul is commemorated on 14 June, in the new style. He is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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