Gabriel the Iberian

10th century) was a Georgian Christian-Orthodox monk from the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, who is revered as a saint.

Gabriel led strictly religious and rough life: he wore clothes made of animal hair, drank only water and remained silent most of the time, avoiding talking about worldly subjects and talking only about spiritual issues and God.

[3] The most famous event in Gabriel's life was the finding of the icon Panagia Portaitissa which, according to Vita, he took out of the sea when he was already elderly.

[7] Gabriel died at the end of the 10th century and was revered as a saint by the Georgian and other Orthodox monks.

An akathist dedicated to the pious Gabriel was written by a Georgian monk from the monastery in the early 19th century.