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E07068: 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 Maria from dropsy at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
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posted on 2018-11-07, 00:00 authored by juliaSophronius of Jerusalem, The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John, 20
Summary:
There was a certain Maria who was incurably ill with dropsy (hydrops). Physicians were helpless towards those who fell into such a state. And Maria was also extremely endangered by this disease. Due to her monstrous swelling she displayed a horrible spectacle. When the physicians abandoned her and her death was imminent, she turned to the martyrs Cyrus and John and went to their shrine. She was not able to walk though, so she crawled on the ground with moaning from pain. The martyrs, when they eventually saw her sleeping, took pity and appeared to her in a dream, revealing her the remedy against the disease. It was the paxamite bread (artos paxametes) which was easily reachable, because it was baked in Herakleion, a neighbouring village. Her relatives brought the bread for her, mixed it with water from the source and applied the mixture on her body, covering it entirely, as it had been prescribed by the martyrs, according to what the woman saw and heard in her dream. When the mixture of the paxamite bread and water dried, the mass of liquid inside the woman's body desiccated, since the mixture worked as a sponge. Maria easily avoided death this way and blessed the power of the martyrs.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
Summary:
There was a certain Maria who was incurably ill with dropsy (hydrops). Physicians were helpless towards those who fell into such a state. And Maria was also extremely endangered by this disease. Due to her monstrous swelling she displayed a horrible spectacle. When the physicians abandoned her and her death was imminent, she turned to the martyrs Cyrus and John and went to their shrine. She was not able to walk though, so she crawled on the ground with moaning from pain. The martyrs, when they eventually saw her sleeping, took pity and appeared to her in a dream, revealing her the remedy against the disease. It was the paxamite bread (artos paxametes) which was easily reachable, because it was baked in Herakleion, a neighbouring village. Her relatives brought the bread for her, mixed it with water from the source and applied the mixture on her body, covering it entirely, as it had been prescribed by the martyrs, according to what the woman saw and heard in her dream. When the mixture of the paxamite bread and water dried, the mass of liquid inside the woman's body desiccated, since the mixture worked as a sponge. Maria easily avoided death this way and blessed the power of the martyrs.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
History
Evidence ID
E07068Saint 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