Gavriil Marinakis

Hegumen

Gavriil Marinakis
Gavriil Marinakis (National Historical Museum of Greece).
Native name
Γαβριήλ Μαρινάκης
Bornc. 1826
Margarites, Rethymno, Crete, Ottoman Empire
Died9 November 1866
Arkadi Monastery, Crete, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Buried
Courtyard of Arkadi Monastery
Allegiance Kingdom of Greece
Branch Cretan Revolutionaries
ConflictsCretan revolt (1866–1869)

Gavriil Marinakis (Greek: Γαβριήλ Μαρινάκης, c. 1826 - 1866) was the hegumenos of Arkadi Monastery and a fighter of the Cretan Revolution of 1866. He was killed in November 1866 during the siege of the monastery by the Ottoman forces.

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