Gerasimos
Gerasimos * in Myra ( Lycia ), † 475 became a monk and went to the Theba desert as a hermit . Around 450 he moved on to Palestine and founded a monastery with strict ascetic rules on the Jordan .
Life
Gerasimos lived as a hermit on the banks of the Jordan. Near the Laura of Gerasimos was the Kalamonos Monastery, which was built when Helena was in the holy land . There was already a small church there in the time of the apostles , because the square was originally a grotto in which, according to tradition, Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus rested on their flight to Egypt ( Matthew 2:14 EU ). In 455 Gerasimos built his monastery there, which he then headed as abbot and which today bears his name.
Gerasimos was known as a miracle worker ; so he raised a dead man before the eyes of many witnesses. The lion legend of Gerasimos is the same as that of Hieronymus : the lion is suspected of having eaten the donkey. This legend, which originally belonged to Gerasimos, was probably attributed to Hieronymus (Geronimus) through confusion of names and the similarity between the two hermits. Afterwards the lion became Gerasimos' close companion and helped with the work in the monastery, for example. B. when transporting the water from the Jordan. After Gerasimos fell asleep, the lion died a few days later out of mourning, lying on the saint's grave.
He adhered to the Monophysitism heralded by Eutyches and Dioscur , but let Euthymius the Great move him to the Orthodox faith. His favorite student was the anchorite Cyriacus .
His feast day in the Orthodox Church is March 4th, and in the Roman Catholic Church is March 5th.
Individual evidence
- ^ Theba desert . In: Heinrich August Pierer (Ed.): Pierer's Universal-Lexikon , Vol. 17 (1863), p. 455.
- ↑ https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienG/Gerasimos_vom_Jordan.html
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerasimos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Monk and hermit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 475 |