Hieromartyr

Hieromartyr (?) Nicholas Gavarin(?)

1870 — 1938 (предположительно)

Also known as: прежнее заглавие карточки: «Николай Гавар» — вероятно, усечённая фамилия

The card "Nicholas Gavar" — likely a truncated surname for Hieromartyr Nicholas Gavarin, a New Martyr (d. 1938), though the exact identification is not confirmed by any source and requires further verification.

HONEST WARNING ON LOW CONFIDENCE: extensive searching found no Georgian or other saint named "Nicholas Gavar" (variants "Garejeli," "Garejeli-oriented," "Gavarsky" were checked — none yielded results). The only plausible candidate is Hieromartyr Nicholas Gavarin, a 20th-century New Martyr priest, but the surname match is incomplete (missing the "-in" ending), leaving the identification a hypothesis rather than a confirmed fact.

Hieromartyr Nicholas Gavarin was born December 23, 1870, in Jakobstadt (Courland province); ordained priest in Grodno, later serving at the Church of St. Nicholas "na Shchepakh" in Moscow. He was arrested August 29, 1937, held in Taganka prison; he died in the Ukhta-Pechora labor camp on April 24, 1938. He was glorified by Synodal decision on December 24, 2004, and included in the Synaxis of Belarusian Saints on January 12, 2012.

IF this card genuinely refers to this person, his feast is kept on April 11/24 (day of death). However, given the incomplete name match, the card is flagged as requiring further archival verification rather than definitively established.

Sources