He practiced asceticism in the Egyptian Tiwaida, then moved to Jordan, where he founded a family that still exists today. He established a constitution for his monastery, according to which the monks spent five days in their cells weaving beehives and mats and ate only a little dry bread and dates. On Saturdays and Sundays, they gathered in the monastery church and went to a common meal. Saint Gerasim did not eat anything during Lent. Once he removed a thorn from the leg of a lion, who followed him to the monastery where he stayed until the old man's death, and then he died of grief. At first he leaned towards the Monophysite heresy of Eutychius and Dioscorus, but St. Euthymius dissuaded him from it. At the IV Ecumenical Council, he was a great supporter of Orthodoxy. He died in 475.

Holy Martyrs Paul and Julian. Saint Jacob the Faster. (White Shrovetide).