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gans, thanks for the post and especially for the mention of St. Gerasimos of Jordan (SV.Ieronim?)

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Reverend
Gerasim Jordan
His memory is celebrated on 4 /17 March


Thank fasters - Rev. Gerasim had worked in a monastery near Jerusalem.
Novice monks lived in the monastery itself, and experienced settled in the desert in solitary cells. Five days a week spent in the desert solitude and perfect silence. Praying, they wove baskets of palm branches. Do hermit was nothing but worn-out clothes so woven from twigs litter on which they slept. Their spiritual father, the Rev. Gerasim forbade them to go out of his cell and lock the door so that anyone could enter and take what he likes.
They eat biscuits with water and dates. In cells not allowed to cook and even build a fire - and that they not come to mind to cook something. One day, a few monks asked for authorization to read at night by candlelight, and light a fire - to warm water. St Gerasim replied: "Do you want to build a fire - live at the monastery with novonachalnymi, and hermit cells, I will not stand." The very Reverend Gerasim full of Lent until Easter, ate nothing and only communion with the Divine Mysteries reinforces the body and soul.
On Saturdays and Sundays, going to the abode of hermits. After Holy Communion, they went into the meal, and dinner - eat cooked food and drank a little wine. Then bring baskets, placing them at the feet of elders and again differed on kelyam, taking with him a small supply of biscuits, dates, water and palm branches.
The story about Saint Gerasimos such a story. One day he walked through the desert and met a lion. Leo limping because splinter in his paw, it was swollen and the wound was full of pus. It showed the Reverend sore paw and looked plaintively at him as if asking for help.
The old man sat down, pulled out of the clutches of barbed wire, wound cleansed of pus and bandaged. The beast did not run away, but stayed with a hermit and has since gone after him everywhere, like a student, so that the Rev. admired his prudence. The elder gave the lion bread and porridge, and he ate.
The monastery was a donkey, which drove the water from the Jordan, and the elder told the lion to his mouth in a river. Once a lion is far away from the donkey, went in the sun and fell asleep. At that time, was driving past a merchant caravan camels. He saw a donkey grazing unattended, and led him away. Leo woke up and did not find his ass with a sad, sad kind of went to the elder. Rev. Gerasim thought that the lion had eaten the donkey.
- Where is the donkey? - Asked the old man.
Leo stood with bowed head like a man.
- You ate it? - Asked the reverend Gerasim .- Blessed be the Lord, you do not go away, and will work on the monastery instead of a donkey.
At a lion wearing the harness, and he began bringing water to the monastery.
Once in the monastery came to pray, one a warrior. Seeing that the lion is working as a pack animal, he felt sorry for him and gave the monks three gold coins - they bought another donkey and the lion will not go to Jordan for water.
The merchant, who led the ass again soon took place near the monastery. He was carrying wheat into Jerusalem.
After seeing the donkey, walking with camels, a lion found him and ryknuv, rushed to the caravan. People are very scared and ran off, and the lion took the reins in his teeth, as he always did, as he fed the donkey, and took him along with three tied to each other camels in the monastery. Leo was joy and delight loud roar. So they came to the elder. Rev. Gerasim smiled gently and told his brother:
- In vain we cursed the lion, thinking that he had eaten the donkey.
And then the old man gave the lion's name - Jordan.
  
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According to another still called "Jerome" (Do not know what Gerasim and Jerome, a name ..)