Gervasius of Gomati

Venerable Gervasius of Gomati was a monk of the Karakallou monastery on Mount Athos and a fool for Christ, at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. He was born at Gomati in Chalkidiki, in the district of Ierissos. The only witness to his life is a manuscript of 1845 by Dositheos Konstamonitis of Lesbos.

According to it, Gervasius left the world and went straight to Karakallou, where he received the angelic monastic habit. He was not content with the habit but strove to keep the works that belong to it. Following Symeon and Andrew the fools for Christ, he walked about the whole Mountain like a madman. His holiness was recognised only after his repose, through the grace and fragrance of his holy relics.

He is commemorated on the Saturday between 1 and 7 May, a movable day in the calendar of the Church of Greece, and according to one source also on 14 October.