Saint Gabriel of Samtavrus (Urgebadze)
A monk of the American monastery of Saint Germanus in Alaska, Gerasimos (Eliel), having learned about Father Gabriel, visited him in 1991 in Georgia. His memories of Father Gabriel conclude as follows:
“Our last question, which we dared to ask Father Gabriel, was this:
“Is it true that they say about you that you burned the portrait of Lenin?”
“Yes.”
“But why?” we asked.
He answered very simply, something like this:
"I am a shepherd and God has entrusted me with the care of His sheep.
They have set up an idol and wanted people to worship before it.
He is a kind of Antichrist, either more like a man or more like a beast.
The communists wanted to give him honors that belonged only to God.
I could not allow this to continue.
Father Gabriel blessed us and we left, having witnessed the triumph of the New Testament Church in our time."
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