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It is divided into two spaces ΄΄apartments΄΄ that communicate with a square hole in the floor 30*40 cm. The first apartment has the shape of an almost arc whose straight side is 5m. length. The second is a 2*5 rectangle. There are dirt and rocks on the floor. The sides are stone-built and end in
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Hermitage of Saint Gerasimos is located inside the temple: it is a very narrow passage that leads through an almost vertical iron staircase three meters long to an underground space which is separated by a narrow opening into "two rooms". In the grounds of the Monastery, the three large plane
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The monastery is dedicated to the
Dormition of the Virgin Mary and has been named by the residents of the village of Valsamata as "New Jerusalem". The monastery and its surroundings were granted by the Priest George Valsamos to
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The walls are plastered up to the beginning of the roof with kurasan or lime. It is also noteworthy that although visitors-pilgrims need to kneel while in the hermitage, they are not soiled by the muddy floor.
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Hermitage of Saint Gerasimos is located in the area of Spilia Argostoli, where he built a nunnery called New Jerusalem in the location of Omala in Kefallinia, where he became a monk.
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Gerasimos died in 1579 and was canonized in 1622.
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Monastery of Saint Gerasimos there is also his hermitage, which can be visited nowadays. Also, in the Monastery, the shroud of the Saint is kept.
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Gerasimos is the patron saint of Kefalonia and his relic is kept in the monastery, in a silver urn. Saint Gerasimos was a monk from
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trees planted by the Saint himself are still preserved, as well as the three wells he dug with his own hands, according to tradition.
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