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E07096: 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 Gennadios from a head 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, 23
Summary:
There was a certain Gennadios who had such a head disease as nobody ever had. He suffered from terrible pains which were associated with a sort of humming (bombodes) which was strange and unrecognisable to both the physicians and those who heard it. The physicians tried out an entire gamut of remedies but all their efforts were vain. Thus the ill man turned to the martyrs and obtained healing very quickly.
When he was sleeping in their sanctuary, the martyrs were awake and worked on his healing. They approached him and commanded him to wake up early and exit their shrine. He was then to find a man with three camels. He had to catch the last camel and keep it until it defecated. Since its dung mixed with water was his remedy that was to be applied on his head. The ill man carefully executed the order. He woke up, left the shrine and found three camels. He caught the halter of the last one to prevent it following the others. The man who took care of the animals tried to persuade Gennadios to let the camel go. When he saw that he did not listen to him, took his camel-goad and hit Gennadios in the head. The hit opened his head and the flies that were inside it flied up and away through this hole. The man's head was thus freed of pain and constant harm. Yet the flies filled full that place displaying a strange spectacle for those who were looking. Gennadios was thus healed by the martyrs' hands and not by the camel dung. However, the wound was still gushing with the flies and the man was tortured by their flights in and out when the camel emitted its excrement, as if of some rigid ordinance. The people who were present there, took the dung, mixed it with water, and applied to Gennadios' head, blocking up the entrance for the flies so that they could not reinstall themselves inside. The application of the excrement rendered the wound invisible and made it more and more indiscernible for those who wanted to see the seat of the flies except for a little scar which was left as a memorial of the martyrs' mercy.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
Summary:
There was a certain Gennadios who had such a head disease as nobody ever had. He suffered from terrible pains which were associated with a sort of humming (bombodes) which was strange and unrecognisable to both the physicians and those who heard it. The physicians tried out an entire gamut of remedies but all their efforts were vain. Thus the ill man turned to the martyrs and obtained healing very quickly.
When he was sleeping in their sanctuary, the martyrs were awake and worked on his healing. They approached him and commanded him to wake up early and exit their shrine. He was then to find a man with three camels. He had to catch the last camel and keep it until it defecated. Since its dung mixed with water was his remedy that was to be applied on his head. The ill man carefully executed the order. He woke up, left the shrine and found three camels. He caught the halter of the last one to prevent it following the others. The man who took care of the animals tried to persuade Gennadios to let the camel go. When he saw that he did not listen to him, took his camel-goad and hit Gennadios in the head. The hit opened his head and the flies that were inside it flied up and away through this hole. The man's head was thus freed of pain and constant harm. Yet the flies filled full that place displaying a strange spectacle for those who were looking. Gennadios was thus healed by the martyrs' hands and not by the camel dung. However, the wound was still gushing with the flies and the man was tortured by their flights in and out when the camel emitted its excrement, as if of some rigid ordinance. The people who were present there, took the dung, mixed it with water, and applied to Gennadios' head, blocking up the entrance for the flies so that they could not reinstall themselves inside. The application of the excrement rendered the wound invisible and made it more and more indiscernible for those who wanted to see the seat of the flies except for a little scar which was left as a memorial of the martyrs' mercy.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007. Summary: J. Doroszewska.
History
Evidence ID
E07096Saint 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