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E07057: 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 a thigh disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
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posted on 2018-11-05, 00:00 authored by juliaSophronius of Jerusalem, The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John, 17
There was a certain Ioannes who came from aristocracy and took pride in his gold, hence he was nicknamed Chrysones ('the Golden'). But he would not be mentioned here if he did not receive health from the martyrs which is more radiant than gold and which is given by the martyrs according to their will without excluding anyone of those who seek it, unless these persons are too infamous and unfaithful.
This Ioannes had a terrible illness which was incurable by medicine. His thighs were consumed by the disease as if out of divine wrath. The skin which covered his thighs was rotting and because of the excess of putrefaction, the flesh under the skin, deprived of this natural covering, separated from the bones and fell down to the soil. The illness was prolonged, causing great pains, and the physicians could not help at all. Thus Ioannes turned to Cyrus and John.
Οἱ δὲ ὄντως ἰατροὶ χρηματίζοντες μάρτυρες, τῆς θείας αὐτῶν δεῖξαι δυνάμεως καὶ τῆς ἰατρῶν ἀσθενείας θέλοντες τὸ διάφορον, οἰκτρῷ τοῦτόν τινι βοηθήματι ὄναρ ὀφθέντες ἰάσαντο, ἅλας σὺν κυμίνῳ μιχθὲν ἐν τῷ τρίβεσθαι πάττειν τοὺς μηροὺς ἐπιτρέπουσιν.
'The martyrs who rightly bear the name of physicians, wanting to show him the difference between their divine power and the weakness of the physicians, appeared to him in a dream and cured him by a compassionate remedy: they told him to apply salt mixed by rubbing with cumin on his thighs.'
The man did it immediately once he woke up and regained health.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Translation and summary: J. Doroszewska.
There was a certain Ioannes who came from aristocracy and took pride in his gold, hence he was nicknamed Chrysones ('the Golden'). But he would not be mentioned here if he did not receive health from the martyrs which is more radiant than gold and which is given by the martyrs according to their will without excluding anyone of those who seek it, unless these persons are too infamous and unfaithful.
This Ioannes had a terrible illness which was incurable by medicine. His thighs were consumed by the disease as if out of divine wrath. The skin which covered his thighs was rotting and because of the excess of putrefaction, the flesh under the skin, deprived of this natural covering, separated from the bones and fell down to the soil. The illness was prolonged, causing great pains, and the physicians could not help at all. Thus Ioannes turned to Cyrus and John.
Οἱ δὲ ὄντως ἰατροὶ χρηματίζοντες μάρτυρες, τῆς θείας αὐτῶν δεῖξαι δυνάμεως καὶ τῆς ἰατρῶν ἀσθενείας θέλοντες τὸ διάφορον, οἰκτρῷ τοῦτόν τινι βοηθήματι ὄναρ ὀφθέντες ἰάσαντο, ἅλας σὺν κυμίνῳ μιχθὲν ἐν τῷ τρίβεσθαι πάττειν τοὺς μηροὺς ἐπιτρέπουσιν.
'The martyrs who rightly bear the name of physicians, wanting to show him the difference between their divine power and the weakness of the physicians, appeared to him in a dream and cured him by a compassionate remedy: they told him to apply salt mixed by rubbing with cumin on his thighs.'
The man did it immediately once he woke up and regained health.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Translation and summary: J. Doroszewska.
History
Evidence ID
E07057Saint 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