One day, married couples who had no children came to the elder. The doctors’ diagnosis was disappointing. The elder put them on his knees and blessed them, and then told them to order a prayer service to John the Baptist three times, and they would have a child. When the couple left, the elder once again repeated that in a year they will have a child. «If there’s a boy, I’ll call Gabriel,» the woman said. “Queen Tamara was a woman, and why was she worse than others?” the elder replied.
A year later, they had a girl. The newborn was brought to the elder for blessing.
The Monk Gabriel (Urgebadze) in the memoirs of the nun Paraskeva (Rostiashvili).
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