Gerasimus: Name Day
Orthros keeps the name day for Gerasimus on March 4 on the New Calendar and March 17 on the Old Calendar: the feast of St Gerasimus of the Jordan.
The saint
St Gerasimus of the JordanGerasimus came from Lycia in Asia Minor and, after an early monastic formation that included time in the Egyptian desert of the Thebaid, arrived in Palestine around 450 and settled by the Jordan, where he founded a community that grew to some seventy monks living in the wilderness east of Jericho.Read the life ›Other saints named Gerasimus
St Gerasimus the New of CephaloniaOctober 20
Questions
- When is the name day for Gerasimus?
- Orthros keeps the name day for Gerasimus on March 4 on the New Calendar and March 17 on the Old Calendar.
- Which saint's feast is the name day for Gerasimus?
- It is the feast of St Gerasimus of the Jordan.