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Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition

Posthumous or imagined likeness of Sts. Cosmas and Damian.
Posthumous or imagined likeness of Sts. Cosmas and Damian. Source · Public domain
Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints

Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition

late antique cult; medieval miracle collections · Medieval · Hagiography

Sts. Cosmas and Damian are the physician saints par excellence: twin or paired martyrs, healers without payment, patrons of doctors and surgeons, and subjects of one of medieval art's strangest surgical miracles.

high medical relevanceSaintsIllness / BodyFaith / Religion