A baptismal name for a boy
Gerasimus
11 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Gerasimus
Venerable Gerasimus of the JordanMarch 4Monk and abbot of the fifth century who lived in the desert near the Jordan.
Venerable Gerasimus of VologdaMarch 4Monk, the first wonderworker of Vologda, who died in 1178; commemorated on March 4.- Martyr GerasimusJune 1A martyr commemorated in the calendar of the Church of Greece.
- Venerable Gerasimus of IrkutskSchemamonk who laid the foundation of the Ascension Hermitage at Irkutsk in 1672; he died in 1676.
- Venerable Gerasimus of EuboeaDecember 7A venerable monastic who struggled in Euboea.
- Venerable Martyr Gerasimus of KarpenisiJuly 3A monastic martyr of Karpenisi, who died in 1812.
- Venerable Gerasimus of ZurvaSeptember 15A venerable father, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar; little is known of his life.
- Martyr Gerasimus Fu RuiJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Venerable Gerasimus of RossikonA schema-archimandrite and Greek hegumen of St Panteleimon, who reposed in 1875; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Fool-for-Christ Gerasimus of NeamtA 19th-century hermit and fool for Christ near Neamț Monastery; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Gerasimus GreerusA hermit of the Cașin Mountains in the Bacău region, who reposed in 1925; named in the Romanian Paterikon, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Gerasimus is March 4, the feast of Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan. It is also kept on June 1, December 7, July 3, September 15, June 11.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 11 saints named Gerasimus, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Gerasimus is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Venerable Gerasimus of the Jordan as patron.