Gerasimos of Euripos

Venerable Gerasimos of Euripos was a missionary in Greece during the Frankish occupation, around the 1320s, born at Euripos, the medieval name for Euboea. He was a disciple of Saint Gregory the Sinaite and is commemorated on 7 December. He is locally honoured; he has no known canonization.

His parents were of Western origin, of the French family Regas Fatzou. In the second half of the thirteenth century he went to the Monastery of St Catherine at Sinai. There he met Gregory the Sinaite, supremely virtuous, and became his disciple. So he attained great heights of praxis and theoria, and became an example and model of all good things. When Gregory left Sinai, Gerasimos followed him to the harbour of Crete, from which Gregory departed for Mount Athos, while Gerasimos set off for continental Greece, where he worked as a missionary. Eventually he returned to his homeland of Euboea as Monk Gerasimos the Sinaite.