When is Gerasimos’s name day?

Gerasimos can be celebrated on 3 feasts in the Orthodox calendar. People keep the feast of the saint they were named for, or the one their family has always kept.

Every feast on which Gerasimos is celebrated

The saints behind the name

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  Gerasimos of the Jordan

  March 4, Venerable, Γεράσιμος

  St. Gerasimos was a fifth-century ascetic who founded a great monastery in the desert by the River Jordan, guiding many monks in a strict rule of poverty, silence, and prayer, and was counted among the great elders of the Palestinian desert.

  Name days: Gerasimos, Gerasim

• Gerasimos of Cephalonia (Repose)

  August 16, Venerable, Γεράσιμος Κεφαλληνίας

  Saint Gerasimos was born in the Peloponnese in the sixteenth century, became a monk on Mount Athos and later settled on Cephalonia, where he founded a convent at Omala and served the people in famine and sickness. He reposed on the fifteenth of August 1579.

  Name days: Gerasimos, Makis, Gerasim, Gerasimoula

• Gerasimos of Cephalonia (Translation of Relics)

  October 20, Venerable, Γεράσιμος ο εν Κεφαλληνία

  Gerasimos was born at Trikala in Corinthia in 1506 of the noble Notaras family. He became a monk on Mount Athos, lived in the Holy Land and on Zakynthos, and finally settled on Cephalonia, where he founded the convent of New Jerusalem at Omala.

  Name days: Gerasimos, Gerasimus, Makis, Gerasim, Gerasimoula

Also celebrating with Gerasimos

These names share the feast, many of them other forms of the same name:

Gerasim, Makis, Gerasimoula, Gerasimus

What to say on a name day

The Greek wish is Χρόνια Πολλά (Chronia Polla), “many years.” A call or a short message on the day is what people remember. See name day wishes you can send and what a name day is.