Hieromonk
He was born on April 24, 1898, in the village of Ohorodniki, Slutsk district, Minsk province, in the family of a peasant Ivan Gur. He received his education at a church-parochial school. After the death of his father in 1918, he became a novice at the Nikolaev Monastery of the Chelyabinsk Diocese, where he labored until the closure of the monastery in 1922. He then went to Mount Athos, where he remained until 1925. On January 22, 1925, he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Gabriel, and on November 6 of the same year, he was ordained as a hierodeacon. From March 4, 1929, he served in the Annunciation Church in Pavlovaya Sloboda, Moscow region.
In October 1929, he was ordained as a hieromonk. During this time, he actively served, baptized infants, and preached, despite pressure from the Soviet authorities. On December 11, 1929, he was summoned for interrogation, where he was accused of preaching that could influence the people against the Soviet power. Father Gabriel claimed that he did not consider himself guilty and preached from books.
On December 31, 1929, a meeting of the village council took place, where his activities were discussed. As a result, Father Gabriel was arrested on January 8, 1930, and sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp. After returning in 1932, he continued his ministry in various churches but was always under the threat of arrest.
On September 29, 1937, he was arrested again and interrogated for a month. On November 17, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. He was shot on November 19, 1937, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
