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Saint-Gerasimos monastery
According to the tradition, Gerasimos (1506-1579), which is patron saint of the island, would have cured many inhabitants reached of madness. Today still, two festivals rythment life of the monastery of
Saint-Gerasimos located in the South of the island (at 15 minutes of the village of Mitakata) : on 16th August (day commemorating his death) and on 20th October (date of the transfer of its skin in the church built above the cave where he lived). At the time of the procession which proceeds along a large avenue bordered of plane trees.
The habit wants that the people reached of mental disorders lie down on the passage in the hope of a miraculous cure.
A church named Saint Gerasimos was built in New York City by Kefalonians who emigrated to New York in the early 20th century.
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