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E07560: 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 virgin Anna from a stomach disease, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
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posted on 2019-05-14, 00:00 authored by juliaSophronius of Jerusalem, The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John, 44
Summary:
There was a certain Anna who was a virgin under religious vows [monastria]. She lived in the village (ktema) of Herakleion with other virgins. She was around twelve years old, which is a dangerous age for humans, because they lack experience and are particularly prone to demonic machinations. The girl isolated herself from her companions and began to play with reeds, picking them up, putting them into her mouth and throwing them back on the ground. She then came across a reed which was inhabited by three poisonous lizards named samamithia. When Anna picked up the reed and put it into her mouth, the reptiles fell down into her stomach. They immediately endeavoured to exit, but did not know the way. They began to move in all directions, tormenting by these movements the intestines of the girl. She suffered incessantly, so she turned to the martyrs, because she did not know physicians who would be capable enough to cure her.
The martyrs appeared in a dream to another brother who was in their sanctuary, because he was ill. They told him to instruct the virgin to go to one of the taverns without having drunk or eaten anything, and force herself to drink three cups. She would be immediately healed thereafter.
The man woke up and informed the girl of what he was told by the martyrs in his dream. The virgin went to the tavern and drank three cups of wine. When she finished, she started vomiting and expelled the three reptiles. She was thus delivered from her suffering and escaped the death prepared for her by a demon. She sang hymns in honour of the martyrs and left their shrine.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007 Summary: J. Doroszewska
Summary:
There was a certain Anna who was a virgin under religious vows [monastria]. She lived in the village (ktema) of Herakleion with other virgins. She was around twelve years old, which is a dangerous age for humans, because they lack experience and are particularly prone to demonic machinations. The girl isolated herself from her companions and began to play with reeds, picking them up, putting them into her mouth and throwing them back on the ground. She then came across a reed which was inhabited by three poisonous lizards named samamithia. When Anna picked up the reed and put it into her mouth, the reptiles fell down into her stomach. They immediately endeavoured to exit, but did not know the way. They began to move in all directions, tormenting by these movements the intestines of the girl. She suffered incessantly, so she turned to the martyrs, because she did not know physicians who would be capable enough to cure her.
The martyrs appeared in a dream to another brother who was in their sanctuary, because he was ill. They told him to instruct the virgin to go to one of the taverns without having drunk or eaten anything, and force herself to drink three cups. She would be immediately healed thereafter.
The man woke up and informed the girl of what he was told by the martyrs in his dream. The virgin went to the tavern and drank three cups of wine. When she finished, she started vomiting and expelled the three reptiles. She was thus delivered from her suffering and escaped the death prepared for her by a demon. She sang hymns in honour of the martyrs and left their shrine.
Text: Fernández Marcos 1976, lightly modified in the light of Gascou 2007 Summary: J. Doroszewska
History
Evidence ID
E07560Saint 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