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# Saint Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia burns a 12-metre portrait of the godless Lenin during a May Day demonstration in Tbilisi in 1965
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/sviatoi-gavriil-urgebadze-gruzinskii-szhigaet-12-metrovyi-portret-bezbozhnika-lenina-vo-vremia-maiskoi-demonstratsii-v-tbilisi-v-1965-godu-2/
- Published: 2026-05-01T14:18:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Faith, The East, Society, People

After he burned the portrait of Lenin, he was arrested, beaten and declared mentally ill, then dispatched for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital.

He died in 1995 and was later canonised as a saint.