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E07028: Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John, recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes /Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a certain Ioannes from elephantiasis at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
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posted on 2018-10-31, 00:00 authored by juliaSophronius of Jerusalem, The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John, 15
Summary:
There was a certain Ioannes who was mutilated (lelobemenos) because he suffered from a disease called elephantiasis by physicians (pros ton iatron ten tou elephantos homonymian semainetai). It is called this, since, just as the elephant surpasses other animals in the size of its body, so the disease is greater than others in its malignity.
Ioannes, consumed by the disease and not obtaining any relief from the physicians, turned to the ender of evils (pausikakos) Cyrus and to his fellow martyr Ioannes, the servants of Christ (Christou therapontes). He believed that they could heal immediately, provided they want to. The martyrs, in admiration for his belief in them, took care of him in their sanctuary, restored health to him very quickly and recompensed his strong faith in them.
The remedy to the disease should also be described here, so that curious physicians would not think it had anything to do with the Hippocratic methods of treatment, and so that Hippocrates and Galen would not be credited with the healing, instead of the martyrs. Thus, the remedy was glass (hyalos) in its previous form, that is triturated sand (he psammos metenechthesa meta ten leiosin) [mixed with some water]. This remedy was prescribed by the martyrs in dreams to the sufferer, with the order that he apply it to his entire body. Ioannes executed this solemnly, and was healed.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
Summary:
There was a certain Ioannes who was mutilated (lelobemenos) because he suffered from a disease called elephantiasis by physicians (pros ton iatron ten tou elephantos homonymian semainetai). It is called this, since, just as the elephant surpasses other animals in the size of its body, so the disease is greater than others in its malignity.
Ioannes, consumed by the disease and not obtaining any relief from the physicians, turned to the ender of evils (pausikakos) Cyrus and to his fellow martyr Ioannes, the servants of Christ (Christou therapontes). He believed that they could heal immediately, provided they want to. The martyrs, in admiration for his belief in them, took care of him in their sanctuary, restored health to him very quickly and recompensed his strong faith in them.
The remedy to the disease should also be described here, so that curious physicians would not think it had anything to do with the Hippocratic methods of treatment, and so that Hippocrates and Galen would not be credited with the healing, instead of the martyrs. Thus, the remedy was glass (hyalos) in its previous form, that is triturated sand (he psammos metenechthesa meta ten leiosin) [mixed with some water]. This remedy was prescribed by the martyrs in dreams to the sufferer, with the order that he apply it to his entire body. Ioannes executed this solemnly, and was healed.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
History
Evidence ID
E07028Saint Name
Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John, physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt : S00406Saint Name in Source
Κῦρος καὶ ἸωάννηςRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Collections of miraclesLanguage
- Greek