Saint Gerasimos Monastery

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  konstantine (guest)

  Saint Gerassimos was ordained a Monk at Mt Athos, went to Jerusalem for 12 years, spent some time in Crete and Zakynthos and in 1555 arrived on Kefalonia. He spent his first 5 years in a cave in Lassi.In 1560 he moved to the Omala valley where he rebuilt the country chapel and founded a nunnery naming it 'New Jerusalem'. His favourite saying was 'Children be peaceful with yourselves and don't think high' Saint Gerasimos was known as a teacher, a healer and a water diviner. He was a man who sought peace by living in a cave and worked for his fellow man establishing many wells in the area of the Monastery. The islanders soon started to call their children Gerasimos (Makis for short) in honour of this lovely man and his remains are still cherished with pilgrims flocking from all over Greece to see them. Today the Saint's relics are kept in a glass relic-case within a magnificent silver sarcophagus which is placed above the Saint's tomb.

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