They were twins, Cosmas and Damian, born in Syria around the 3rd century. Both studied medicine, both became physicians.
Like other doctors of their time, they learned how to treat sickness, mend wounds, and ease pain. But unlike the rest, they never took a coin. Healing was gift, not trade. People began to call them Anargyroi, a Greek word that means “without silver.”
They healed the sick with skill, and they prayed as they worked. Body and soul together. Stories spread about them, stories that felt larger than life—like the one where they replaced a diseased leg with a new one from someone already dead. It is told as a legend, a miracle that medicine could not explain.
But the empire turned against Christians. The Roman emperor Diocletian, known for his brutal persecution of the Church, ordered them arrested. Chains, torture, threats—nothing could break them. The twins refused to give up their faith. So they were killed.
Still, their names lived on. Churches built, prayers whispered, doctors and pharmacists claiming them as patrons. Saints Cosmas and Damian—two brothers who proved healing could be more than science, more than silver.
ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ
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