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Venerable Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia

Also known as Gerasimos of Kefalonia

A Greek monk who labored on Zakynthos, Mount Athos, and Cephalonia, founding a women's monastery; the patron saint of Cephalonia, often invoked for the mentally afflicted and demon-oppressed.

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Notes

Also commemorated Oct 20.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints