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E07094: 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 Sarapammon from a leg disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
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posted on 2018-11-13, 00:00 authored by juliaSophronius of Jerusalem, The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John, 22
Summary:
There was a certain young man, Sarapammon, whose leg was diseased. This illness transformed him into a monster. The illness was called by physicians a 'tumour' (skiros). It was very grave and afflicted Sarapammon's entire leg up to the groin and made it enormous in size especially when compared to the healthy leg. His father Ioulianos took him to physicians and promised them a good payment for healing his son. The physicians tried out various kinds of treatment but in the end they proclaimed their defeat and the incurability of the illness. The young man was thus carried to the shrine of the martyrs, because his parents knew that Cyrus and John heal all diseases. The martyrs do not prescribe anything which relies on vague medical doctrines, but sometimes they even prescribe remedies opposing medicine. In this case, they prescribed that Sarapammon should anoint his leg with oil (elaios) and wax (kerote) from the lamps illuminating their sanctuary. They did it, having appeared to his parents in a dream. The anointing made the leg get thinner and thinner thanks to the nutritive wax and the oil which reduced its monstrous size and restored it to its original form. Yet the healing itself was not the only miraculous thing, but also the speed with which it happened, as it was within merely a few days. This is the effect of the grace of the saints who heal grave and terrible diseases in a very short time. Sarapammon who had the same faith in them like his parents, proclaimed thank-offerings (charisteria) to his benefactors.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
Summary:
There was a certain young man, Sarapammon, whose leg was diseased. This illness transformed him into a monster. The illness was called by physicians a 'tumour' (skiros). It was very grave and afflicted Sarapammon's entire leg up to the groin and made it enormous in size especially when compared to the healthy leg. His father Ioulianos took him to physicians and promised them a good payment for healing his son. The physicians tried out various kinds of treatment but in the end they proclaimed their defeat and the incurability of the illness. The young man was thus carried to the shrine of the martyrs, because his parents knew that Cyrus and John heal all diseases. The martyrs do not prescribe anything which relies on vague medical doctrines, but sometimes they even prescribe remedies opposing medicine. In this case, they prescribed that Sarapammon should anoint his leg with oil (elaios) and wax (kerote) from the lamps illuminating their sanctuary. They did it, having appeared to his parents in a dream. The anointing made the leg get thinner and thinner thanks to the nutritive wax and the oil which reduced its monstrous size and restored it to its original form. Yet the healing itself was not the only miraculous thing, but also the speed with which it happened, as it was within merely a few days. This is the effect of the grace of the saints who heal grave and terrible diseases in a very short time. Sarapammon who had the same faith in them like his parents, proclaimed thank-offerings (charisteria) to his benefactors.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
History
Evidence ID
E07094Saint 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