Venerable Silvanus, Presbyter of Gaza (†311–312) — October 14 / October 27 (Julian Calendar)

On this day, October 14 according to the Julian Calendar (October 27 civil calendar), the Georgian Orthodox Church commemorates the Venerable Silvanus, Presbyter of Gaza.

The Venerable Silvanus, a presbyter of Gaza, was seized for preaching Christ and condemned to the hardest labor in the copper mines of Phaeno in Palestine. There the lawless ones beheaded the blessed one together with forty Christians whom he had converted to the faith (†311–312). The Church also commemorates this holy father on May 4.