Saint Christopher of Gazara

Saint Christopher of Gazara was a seventh-century monastic superior, remembered as the head of a monastery on Mount Mela. The surviving record of his life is brief: the synaxarion places his activity in the second half of the seventh century and identifies him with the monastic community at Gazara and Mount Mela, while preserving little else about his birth, his works, or his repose.

His commemoration is kept on August 18, a date that falls within the afterfeast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Beyond his standing as abbot and the chronological window in which he lived, the tradition transmits no narrative of specific events, miracles, or relics, and he is honored among the venerable monastic fathers of the Byzantine period.