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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Gerasimos, anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, ob. 475.

Saint ID

S01507

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03667The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 3 March*Eutropios and Kleonikos, and *Basiliskos (martyrs of Pontus, S01152 and S00388), *Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), *Agapios (probably the martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), *Gerasimos (anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, S01507), and *Porphyrios (bishop of Gaza, ob. 420, S01368).
E03669The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 5 March *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288), *Gerasimos (anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, S01507), and, as a later addition, Theodore 'the neo-martyr', one of a group of martyrs killed by the Arabs in 838.
E03841The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 23 August *Athanasios (bishop of Alexandria, S00294), *Basil (bishop of Caesarea, S00780), *Gregory (bishop of Nyssa, S01357), *Gregory (the Theologian, of Nazianzos, S00837), *John Chrysostom (bishop of Constantinople, S00779), *Epiphanios (bishop of Salamis, S00215), *Kyrillos (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 386, S01569), *Lucius (martyr in Cyrene under Diocletian, S01792), probably *Sarmiane (katholikos of Georgia, 6th c., S01793), *Gerasimos (anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, ob. 475., S01507), and *Athanasios (bishop and martyr of Tarsus, S01794).
E06468Cyril of Scythopolis composes the Life of *Euthymios (monastic founder in Palestine, οb. 472, S01352), recounting his life as a miracle-working ascetic, adding a set of posthumous miracle stories, and including references to the cult of several other saints. Written in Greek at the New Laura in Palestine, in 555/557. Overview entry
E06677Cyril of Scythopolis composes the Life of *Sabas (‘the Sanctified’, monastic founder in Palestine, ob. 532, S00910), recounting his life as a miracle working ascetic and founder of numerous monasteries, adding a set of posthumous miracle stories, and including references to cults of several other saints. Written in Greek at the New Laura in Palestine, 555/557. Overview entry
E06733Cyril of Scythopolis composes the Life of *Kyriakos of Souka (ascetic in Palestine, ob. 556, S01625), recounting his life as a miracle working ascetic. Written in Greek in Palestine, 555/557.
E06772The Greek Life of *Gerasimos of the Jordan (ascetic in Palestine, ob. 475, S01507) recounts the life of its hero as a miracle working ascetic near Jericho. Written in Palestine, in the 7th c. or later.