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“Treatment of Justinian by the holy doctors Cosmas and Damian” (1439). Artist Fra Beato Angelico Image from wikipedia.org

Transplantation in a dream

The first successful case of limb transplantation is known not from a medical treatise, but from the lives of the holy doctors - Cosmas and Damian, medical brothers (November 14).

The transplant was performed in my sleep. History has preserved the following evidence:

One person had pain in his leg. Medicines didn't help. In a dream, two people appeared to him with an instrument in their hands... The patient recognized the holy brother doctors: Cosmas and Damian.

One asked the other: “Where can we get a leg to replace the bad one?” Another replied: “Today they will bury a Moor with a healthy leg.” Two doctors cut off the leg of the dead Moor, placed it on the patient’s leg and applied copious amounts of ointment. When the patient woke up, the pain was gone.

The healed man told everyone about his wonderful dream. People rejoiced at the miracle that had happened and thanked God and Saints Cosmas and Damian” (Life of Saints Cosmas and Damian of Asia according to the Augsburg manuscript. 1493).

This story from the posthumous medical practice of the medical brothers amazed me for many times. And during the Renaissance, the famous Fra Angelico even painted a fresco: “The Dream of Deacon Justinian. (1438 - 1440) - in the altar of the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in the monastery of San Marco.

Why the sick person is called a deacon here is unknown. The factual details of this story are not entirely clear, except for one thing: the sore leg became healthy after praying to the holy doctors Cosmas and Damian.

The holy doctors, brothers Cosmas and Damian (3rd century), were called unmercenary by grateful patients during their lifetime. But the brothers were not just professional doctors who received excellent medical education in the East (in Syria). During their honest lives, Cosma and Damian were endowed with a special gift for treating diseases against which medicine was powerless.

Since they received their abilities as a gift from Christ, the brothers never charged for treatment, remembering the words of the Teacher: “Freely you have received, freely give.” But they told those who resorted to their help about Christ, who gave them the power to help and heal.

In their hometown of Aegean (modern Vergina in Greece), the brothers opened a hospital. They made their own medicines and performed surgeries.

Hospitals in ancient times

“Emperor John II of Byzantium founded the monastery of the Pantocrator in Constantinople, the complex of which included a hospital, which became the largest medical center of that time.” Photo from panoramio.com

In the ancient world, hospitals as such did not exist. The first medical institutions in our understanding appeared precisely at Christian monasteries. For example, one of the first and best was the hospital at the monastery founded by Bishop Basil the Great, a famous theologian (IV), in the city of Caesarea. Outwardly, it was very reminiscent of modern hospital complexes: it included as many buildings as were known in those days of illness.

The monastic charter provided for, in addition to the hospitals themselves, the construction of almshouses and xenodochias at the monasteries - inns for travelers who fell ill on the road. The hospital town, built by St. Basil the Great and called “Refuge,” included, in addition to hospital buildings, hotels for nonresidents, a leper colony, and a shelter for the poor.

People in monastery hospitals were treated free of charge, or for a feasible donation.

Later, private and public hospitals began to appear, the pharmacy business began to develop, and medical schools arose at hospitals. Emperor John II of Byzantium founded the monastery of the Pantocrator in Constantinople, the complex of which included a hospital, which became the largest medical center of that time.

The surviving monastic charter gives us a complete picture of the work of this complex: five halls with 50 beds each, departments of surgery, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, gynecology, and two more departments for other diseases. There was a pharmacy.

The bed was a bed with a mattress and goat's hair blankets. Water supply and sewerage worked, and heaters in winter. A bathroom has been installed. The patients were provided with clothing, mattresses and blankets were updated annually.

The charter also determined the remuneration of employees. The emperor was generous, but doctors working in the monastery hospital were prohibited from private practice.

What were the ancient doctors like?

Only a person who had received a special medical education could become a doctor in the Byzantine Empire. To do this, it was necessary to graduate from medical school (the study of medicine was based on the works of the Greek physician Hippocrates and the ancient Roman Galen). Those who successfully passed the exams received a certificate of professional qualification as a doctor.

A doctor in those days was a man of status. Doctors could practice privately and become house doctors for wealthy families.

There was even a peculiar ambulance- traveling doctors who helped those who could not get to hospitals themselves.

There was a position of the chief city doctor - “archiatr”.

Byzantine legislation even established criminal liability for doctors' mistakes. The forensic medical commission decided whether the doctor was guilty or not guilty. The punishment could be either a small fine or complete confiscation of property.

If a doctor committed an immoral act, he was taken around the city with a urine collection container in his hands for the sake of shame. And it happened that a doctor was sentenced to death: he was stabbed to death with a sword.

God Doesn't Approve of Perfectionism

Saints Cosmas and Damian. Book miniature. 10th century, Byzantium

True, when St. Cosmas and Damian, there were still several centuries left before the founding of the hospital complex “Savior Almighty”. The brothers were raised by their mother; their father died early. Theodotia was a Christian and tried to raise her sons in a good spirit.

Mother of St. Cosmas and Damian are also canonized; her memory is celebrated on the same day as her sons, November 14.

When the brothers grew up, Theodotia sent them to study. This is how they first became acquainted with medicine and learned about the healing properties of herbs and minerals. And then they went to Syria to finish their education.

Non-silver doctors were especially revered by the people.

Cosma and Damian helped not only people, but also animals. One day they saw a barely alive camel in the desert and healed her.

Having built a hospital, they treated not only there, but also, moving from city to city, they looked for those who especially needed help. And if on the way they met a sick animal, then they treated it too.

The brothers were known not only for their disinterestedness, but also, at least one of them, for their particular scrupulousness. One rich woman, healed by the brothers, brought three eggs in gratitude to Damian and begged him to take them in the name of the Holy Trinity. Damian couldn't refuse her.

Having learned about this, Cosmas was upset and wrote in his will to bury him separately from his brother upon death. That same night the Lord appeared to Cosmas and said: “Why are you grieving for the sake of the three eggs you took? They were taken not for the sake of a bribe, but for the sake of the wife’s oath in My name...” (for the sake of Christ, for the sake of heartfelt gratitude).

Cosmas was consoled, but did not change his will (!).

According to one version of the life, during the persecution under Diocletian, St. the brothers were arrested and beheaded.

The unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian were brothers. Their homeland is Asia. This is how part of Asia Minor was called in ancient times. Neither their time of birth nor their time of death is known. What is certain is that they lived no later than the 4th century. Because, firstly, because in the first half of the 5th century, under Emperor Theodosius the Younger, holy temples were built in their name, and secondly, because the Copts, who separated from Orthodoxy since the Council of Chalcedon (431), recognize them in the ranks of saints, whereas they do not accept saints who lived after this time.

November 14 - Unmercenary and miracle workers Cosmas and Damian of Asia, and their mother the Venerable Theodotia

Their father was a Greek and a pagan, their mother was a Christian, named Theodotia. In their early years they lost their parent, but this served to their happiness. The mother could be more free to raise her children. Deciding to remain a widow for the rest of her life, she zealously fulfilled the Christian law; having given up all the joys of life, she only cared about it in order to please the Lord. In a word, she was a true widow, such as the Apostle Paul praises: a true widow is solitary, trusts in God and remains in prayer and supplication day and night (1 Tim. 5:5).

Therefore, the Holy Church canonized her, named her venerable, and commemorates her together with her children. One can understand what kind of upbringing the children received under the guidance of such a mother. From infancy, she tried to instill in them the fear of God and love of virtue.

And as soon as the children began to grow up, she sent them to a certain God-fearing husband to learn to read and write. Here, of course, the main science was the Divine Scripture, but at the same time, driven by love for suffering humanity, they studied medical science and learned the healing properties of herbs and plants.

The Lord blessed their good intentions and gave them special grace - the gift of healings and miracles. The illnesses stopped as soon as Cosmas and Damian began to treat. This, of course, attracted many sick people of all kinds to them.

The blind, the lame, the paralytic, and the possessed surrounded the miracle workers. But the saints were not burdened by this. Not only to be more accessible to the sick, they themselves looked for them and for this they moved from city to city, from city to city, and to all the sick, without distinction of gender and age, rank and condition, they gave healing.

And they did this not in order to get rich or become famous, but with the purest, highest goal - to serve the suffering for the sake of God, to express love for God in love for their neighbors. Therefore, they never accepted any reward from anyone for their labors, not even any signs of gratitude for their own good deeds. They firmly knew and faithfully kept the commandment of the Savior: heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons: eat tuna, give tuna (Matthew 10:8).

They received grace from God freely, and freely distributed it. They asked only one thing of those healed by them: that they firmly believe in Christ, live holy in Christ; if those being healed were not yet enlightened by the light of the Gospel, then they tried to convert them to the Christian faith. Thus, while healing physical ailments, they at the same time healed mental ailments.

For this selfless service to suffering humanity, for these miraculous healings of incurable diseases, the Holy Church calls them unmercenary and miracle workers.

But the healing power of the holy doctors did not extend only to people. They did not forget dumb animals. The righteous has mercy on the souls of beasts and speaks the word of God (Proverbs 12:10). Faithful to this commandment, they walked through houses, deserts and forests, themselves looking for sick animals and giving them healing. Grateful animals felt their benefits, knew their benefactors, and, as soon as these appeared in the deserts, followed them in whole herds.

One day they happened to go into a deserted place. Here they found a barely alive camel. The devil drove him here and broke him here; The saints took pity on the animal, healed it and released it healthy to its place. Afterwards, as we will see, the animal did not remain ungrateful to them.

The entire life of the unmercenary saints was spent in such works of mercy. The brothers never parted with each other; they prayed together, walked together, and healed together. And they did this with a purpose. Having vowed never to take anything from anyone, they were afraid that someone would secretly take any gifts from the healed people from each other. All their lives they kept their vow, and only at the end of it did the Lord allow one of them to break it.

In those days there was a certain wife named Palladia. Having suffered from a serious illness for several years, not receiving relief from any doctors, already feeling the approach of death, she suddenly heard about holy doctors who heal all sorts of diseases.

With faith in their miraculous power, she sent them to her to ask. The saints fulfilled her request, and as soon as they entered her house, the sick woman received healing and stood up completely healthy. In gratitude for the healing, she was ready to give them all her property and offered rich gifts, but the saints did not accept anything.

Then she came up with a means of begging at least one of them to accept an insignificant gift from her. Taking three eggs, she secretly came to Saint Damian and conjured him in the name of God to take these three eggs from her in the name of the Holy Trinity. Damian refused for a long time, but for the sake of his wife’s oath, for the sake of the name of God, he gave in to her request.

Cosmas found out about this, was very upset and then made a will so that, after their death, Damian’s body would not be buried with him, as someone who had broken his vow to the Lord and had taken a bribe for healing. That same night the Lord appeared to Cosmas and said: “Why are you grieving for the sake of the three eggs you took? They were taken not for the sake of a bribe, but for the sake of the wife’s oath in My name...” Cosmas was comforted, but did not tell anyone about his vision. After this, having performed many more signs and wonders, Saint Cosmas rested in peace.

Some time after his death, Saint Damian also rested in peace. People who honored their memory surrounded Damian's body and wondered where to put it. Everyone had Cosma’s will fresh in their minds, and they were afraid to break it.

And so, when they stood in bewilderment at the holy body, a camel suddenly approached them. The people were silent, the camel spoke. “Men of God,” the wordless man began his speech, “who have enjoyed many signs and wonders from Saints Cosmas and Damian, and not only you, but also we, the animals given to you by God. As a servant, I came to you to tell you the secret of Cosmas, so as not to separate them from each other, but to put them together.”

This camel was the same one that had once been healed by the saints. The people who surrounded the body of the saint thanked the Lord, who had so miraculously revealed His secret, and, placing the holy relics of the unmercenaries in one coffin, buried them in a place called Fereman (now does not exist, destroyed by the Turks). Judging by the descriptions of the originals, they died in middle age.

Soon, at the site of their burial, a wonderful and glorious church was built, as their biography says. All kinds of sick people flocked to this church from near and far countries.

Seeing such endless and inexhaustible wealth of the saints, the sick constantly surrounded their temple. After this we can judge that the sick constantly surrounded their temple. After this, one can judge how many miracles were performed by the holy unmercenaries. It is not for nothing that their biographer says that it is easier to measure the sea and count the stars than to tell all the miracles of the saints. Of the many miracles, he described twelve, and in some detail. Dimitri, Metropolitan Rostovsky, in his Chetya-menaia, described only two miracles. We will briefly talk about six of the twelve.

A certain Malchus lived in Pheremane. One day, setting off on a long journey, he brought his wife to the church of the holy unmercenaries and said to her: “Behold, I am going far away, and I am leaving you under the protection of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Live at home until I send you some sign that you will know for sure that it is mine.” Having said this, they parted.

After some time, the devil, taking on the appearance of a familiar person, came to Malkhova’s wife, showed her the very sign that her husband had spoken about, and said: “Your husband sent me to take you to him.”

The wife, seeing the sign given by her husband, believed, but decided to go to him not before the guide took an oath in the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries on the way not to offend her in any way. But what did the oath mean to the demon? He needed to weaken people's faith in the protection of the unmercenary saints.

And so, as soon as they arrived in a wild, deserted place, the devil pushed the woman off the donkey on which she was riding and wanted to kill her. The wife cried out in horror: “Saints Cosmo and Damian, help me and deliver me!”

Saints are always close to everyone who calls them. Suddenly two horsemen appeared. The evil spirit found out who these riders were, ran up a high mountain, threw himself into the abyss and disappeared. And the horsemen, taking the wife, returned her safely to her house. The wife bowed to them and thanked them, but only asked them to tell them who they were, her saviors? “We,” the saints answered, “Cosmas and Damian, to whom your husband handed you over when he set out on his journey.” Having said this, they became invisible. The wife fell to the ground out of fear and joy.

Having come to her senses, she hurried to the temple of the holy unmercenaries and there she tearfully thanked them and told everyone about her salvation.

A certain young man, who had lost his mind from fright, was brought to the temple of the holy unmercenaries with the hope of receiving healing. He spent several days and nights at the church of saints without receiving healing.

After some time, his father, a pious elder, came to him. The parent's prayer was heard. The son, who had not previously recognized his father, began to recognize him.

Finally, the saints, invisibly laying their hands on him, completely healed him and, appearing to his father, commanded him to go to his home, glorifying God.

A certain man, suffering from a lung disease accompanied by hemoptysis, came to the relics of the unmercenary saints to ask for healing. His illness was so dangerous that everyone considered him close to death, and his wife even prepared everything necessary for burial. It should be noted that the patient had not previously believed in the miraculous power of the saints and often spewed blasphemy against God.

The saints healed him of both ailments. In a night vision, they proclaimed that anyone seeking healing should never speak blasphemous words from now on and should abstain from eating meat for a whole year. The patient gladly accepted that offer and faithfully fulfilled it. Then, by the command of the saints, the blood flowing through the larynx stopped, the lungs became stronger, and the patient, thanking the wonderful doctors, joyfully went to his home.

A certain mute and deaf woman came to the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries. Having suffered from this serious illness for many years, she could not expect any help for herself other than heavenly help. For a long time, persistently, with tears, she prayed to the holy doctors to heal her from both ailments. Finally, her prayer was heard. The mute and deaf woman often repeated the Trisagion in her mind. Through the Trisagion, the holy unmercenaries also showed a miracle.

During the evening service in their church, when, according to custom, the Trisagion was sung, suddenly the deaf woman heard the singers and, hitherto mute, began to sing the Trisagion with the singers. Struck by the extraordinary miracle, she loudly confessed the greatness of God revealed through the holy unmercenaries.

Unmercenary saints performed miracles in pagan countries. It happened to one Hellene, a fan of Castor and Pollux (pagan gods), to fall into a serious, unbearable illness. His friends advised him to go to the temple of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian. The patient obeyed. Here, seeing many sick people, many being healed, he finally became convinced of the miraculous power of doctors and with faith began to ask them for mercy.

The saints, both appearing to him together, said: “Friend! Why did you come to us? Why are you asking us? And you didn’t come to us yourself, but were sent by others. We are not Castor and Pollux, but slaves of Christ the immortal King, named Cosmas and Damian. So, if by faith you know our Master, you will receive healing from Him.”

Hellin, suffering intolerable torment, came to know the True God, constantly cried out to the saints for mercy and vowed to accept the Christian faith. The saints, seeing the purity of his faith, laid their hands on him and gave him perfect deliverance. The one who was healed fulfilled his vow - he received holy baptism.

Returning to his home completely healthy, he with great joy told everyone about the miracles of the holy unmercenaries, about the insignificance of Castor and Pollux, about the superiority of Christian teaching. Many of the listeners were moved and, despising their faith, accepted Christianity.

Someone - a lover of folk spectacles - suffered from a chest disease. Finding no relief in anything, he was finally forced to go to the temple of the holy unmercenaries. The holy doctors, seeing his zeal, had mercy on the patient.

The very next night they appeared to him and ordered him to drink one cup of resin (pekla). The patient did not fulfill their orders. The saints appeared to him a second time and added another to one cup. When he did not do this either, they appeared to him a third time and ordered him to drink three cups.

Despite the illness that increased in him every day, he did not want to fulfill the commandments of the saints. Finally, they appeared to him again in a dream and with cheerful faces said: “Friend, why are you crying out to us like that? If it is unpleasant for your health to drink three bowls of resin, then pour them into one vessel and, waiting until late evening, go up the mountain with it, to the place of spectacles, and bury it there so that no one can see you. If you do this, you will receive healing.”

The patient happily did everything as ordered. But everything he did was seen by one person who was late in that place. Explaining his strange act by sorcery, he, noticing the place, went and brought with him many other people. Those, having ascertained the truth of the testimony, took and presented the imaginary sorcerer to the court. They began to interrogate. He told the whole truth - they didn’t believe him.

Finally, they decided that if this was indeed the command of the holy unmercenaries, then in the sight of everyone he should drink these three cups and receive healing. The sick man joyfully accepted the vessel, which seemed unpleasant to him, drank it in front of everyone, and immediately received healing through the power of the holy unmercenaries; He joyfully went to their temple and, having given thanks, told everyone how the holy unmercenaries had healed him of his illness, taught him obedience, and weaned him off folk spectacles.

All these miracles were performed by the holy unmercenaries in Asia, and for the most part in their temple, with the holy relics. Of course, a description of them was also compiled there. It was translated into the Slavic language from Greek, as evidenced by many words left untranslated in the Slavic text. There is no doubt that the grace of the miracles of the holy unmercenaries was manifested in our Fatherland. It is not for nothing that our ancestors erected so many holy temples in their name.

In our Fatherland, the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian (Asian) are mainly considered the patrons of children. They are resorted to in prayer at the beginning of learning to read and write, so that they strengthen the children’s still weak strength and contribute to their correct development.

Of course, it was not without reason that our people developed such a belief. The basis for it could be, in part, their very life, and partly, their church service: firstly, in their life there is a legend about how they were taken by their mother to learn to read and write. This incident from their life is depicted in icons; secondly, in church services they are glorified as wise doctors secretly taught picturesque words, filled with all intelligence and wisdom, who give knowledge to everyone.

In the Chetyaminaia of Metropolitan Macarius there is a teaching in memory of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian (November 1), in which the theme is chosen from the daily Gospel: “What kind of teacher should be.” In its development there are such expressions: “The holy teachers healed the body with miracles and the soul with teaching. They come to them for miracles, and they come for teaching. Nothing else is more appropriate for a teacher than humility and non-acquisitiveness.".

All this comes so close to the unmercenary saints. Of course, in ancient times this teaching was read in the temple. The people heard him and began to come to the holy unmercenaries not only “for the sake of miracles, but also for the sake of teaching.”

The Orthodox people, seeing on the icons, reading in their lives the legend about teaching them to read and write, hearing in churches that they give knowledge to everyone, could not help but come to the conclusion that they especially patronize students.

And the grace of the holy unmercenaries is endless, as the Holy Church sings. They are not only wise doctors, but also wise mentors; Having helped everyone who comes to them in faith, can they refuse the children?

After death, the unmercenary saints performed many miracles. There lived in Fereman, near the temple of Cosmas and Damian, a certain Malchus. One day, getting ready for a long journey and leaving his wife alone for a long time, he prayerfully entrusted her to the heavenly protection of the holy brothers. And the enemy of the human race, having possessed one of Malchus’ friends, planned to destroy the woman. A little time passed, and this man went to her house and said that Malchom had sent her to take her to him. The woman believed and went. He took her to a deserted place and wanted to abuse and kill her. The woman, seeing that she was in danger, cried out to God with deep faith.

Then two formidable men appeared, and the crafty man let the woman go, rushed to run, but fell into the abyss. The husbands took the woman home. At her house, bowing to the ground, she asked: “What is your name, my saviors, whom should I thank until the end of my days?” “We are Christ’s servants Cosmas and Damian,” they answered and became invisible. The woman, with fear and joy, told everyone about what had happened to her, praising God, with tears she went to the icon of the holy brothers and said a prayer of gratitude for deliverance.

Since then, the holy brothers Cosmas and Damian have been revered as patrons of the holiness and inviolability of Christian marriage, as organizers of married life. Since ancient times, their veneration has been widespread in Rus'.

TO THE MIRACLE WORKERS COSMAS AND DAMIAN
Troparion, tone 8

Holy saints without money and miracle workers, Cosmo and Damian, / visit our infirmities: / eat tuna, give us tuna.

Kontakion, tone 2

Receive grace for healings, / extend health to those in need, / physicians, wonderworkers of glory, / but by your visit to the warriors, bring down insolence, / healing miracles for the world.

Greatness

We magnify you, glorious miracle workers, Cosmo and Damian, and honor your holy memory, mentors of the lost, healers of the sick and interlocutors of the Angel.

Prayer to the holy wonderworkers and unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian

To you, saints without money and miracle workers Cosmo and Damian, as to quick helpers and warm prayer books for our salvation, we are unworthy, we come running on bended knees and fall down earnestly crying: do not despise the prayers of us sinners, weak, who have fallen into many iniquities, and all the days and the hours of those who sin. Pray to the Lord to add His great and rich mercy to us, His unworthy servants: deliver us from all sorrow and illness, for you have received from God and our Savior Jesus Christ the endless grace of healing, for the sake of firm faith, free healing and your martyrdom... , pleasers of God, constantly praying for us, flowing to you with faith: even if, due to the multitude of our sins, we are not worthy of your mercy, yet you are a faithful imitator of God’s love for mankind, create, so that we may bear fruit worthy of repentance, and we will achieve eternal rest praising and blessing the wondrous Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ in His saints, and His Most Pure Mother, and your warm intercession, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Several times a year, the Orthodox Church celebrates the day of remembrance of Saints Cosmas and Damian, who are prayed for for the sick: July 1 and November 14. There is an opinion that these are completely different pairs of saints. The first lived and suffered in Rome, and the second in Asia. In this article we will talk about Cosmas and Damian, unmercenary doctors who lived in Rome.

Healing from Heaven

When a person is seriously ill, he approaches the world and his life completely differently. The situation becomes even worse when he is given a serious diagnosis and is not given any guarantees for recovery. A person understands that earthly doctors will not help. There is only one hope left - in the Heavenly Doctor, that is, in God, the Mother of God and the saints.

Among the Orthodox there are even certain saints to whom it is customary to pray for health. The first on their list is the Great Martyr Panteleimon. In earthly life he was a skilled doctor and helped many.

Around the same time, or even several decades earlier, lived Cosmas and Damian of Rome - siblings known as disinterested doctors.

Why are saints called free doctors?

Cosmas and Damian were born around the third century in Rome. Their parents were secret Christians and accordingly raised their children in the Orthodox faith.

At a conscious age, the brothers studied medicine to help people. The Lord, seeing their righteous life and Christian love, rewarded them with a special gift - they healed others from illnesses. The brothers fulfilled the words of the Savior by their own example “Freely you have received, freely give”(Matt. 10:8). For this, Saints Cosmas and Damian are also called unpaid doctors - they did not receive a “bribe”, that is, a reward, for their help.

Their ministry was a kind of preaching of Christianity. When healing people from illnesses, they said that they were doing it not on their own, but thanks to the help of Christ. They set one condition for patients: believe, and according to your faith the Lord will heal you.

Why were Cosmas and Damian sent to prison?

Just imagine a great city in which two strange doctors appeared: siblings heal even the most seriously ill and hopeless, and they don’t even charge for it. They only say: we are doing this with God’s help in order to recover, you also believe.

It is not surprising that word of these brothers will spread very quickly and reach the authorities. Now imagine that this government is against Christians. What will she do with these fellow Christian healers? At the very least, he will be arrested, or even fed to the lions in the Colosseum.

Saints Cosmas and Damian quickly attracted the attention of the city authorities. Roman soldiers were looking for them. Christians, wanting to protect the innocent healers, asked them to temporarily hide. The soldiers, unable to find doctors, captured other Christians who fell into their hands.

After this, the brothers openly appeared before the soldiers and asked to release the prisoners.

Saints Heal the Emperor

During the trial, they openly declared their Christian views before the Roman Emperor Carinus and refused to bow to the pagan gods.

Cosma and Damian also pointed out that they did not harm anyone, but only treated those who contacted them for free. The Lord helped them in everything, by whose power they healed.

But the emperor did not listen to them and insisted on worshiping idols. At this time, a miracle happened: Karina was struck by a sudden illness. The emperor was convinced from his own experience that Christianity is the true religion.

Those present began to ask the brothers to heal Karin. The saints performed a miracle: the emperor recovered. At that time, many believed in Christ, and the doctors were released.

Victims of envy

The devil could not come to terms with the liberation of the righteous and looked for new victims through whom he could destroy the servants of God.

This time Cosma and Damian suffered from human envy. Their teacher, from whom they had learned healing experience for a long time, was terribly jealous of the students’ success.

To remove the brothers, he resorted to a deceitful trick: he invited doctors to collect medicinal herbs in the mountains with him. When Saints Cosmas and Damian agreed, he led them far into the mountains and secretly killed them. But this teacher did not know the deep essence of Christianity: saints help people both during earthly life and after physical death.

Prayer to Saints Cosmas and Damian

Nowadays, many believers turn to the holy unmercenaries. They pray to them mainly for healing and alleviation of illnesses.

You can address the saints either in your own words or with a special prayer:

To you, saints without money and miracle workers Cosmo and Damiana, as to a quick helper and a warm prayer book for our salvation, we, unworthy, bend our knees, and, falling down, earnestly cry out: do not despise the prayers of us, sinners, weak, fallen into many iniquities and all the days and hours of those who sin. Pray to the Lord to add to us, His unworthy servants, His great and rich mercy; deliver us from all sorrow and illness, for you have naturally received from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the inexhaustible grace of healing, for the sake of firm faith, free healing and your martyrdom. Hear us praying, and through your favorable intercession, ask Christ our God for victory and victory over our enemies. Again, we fall, we diligently pray: ask us from the Lord for all that is beneficial, even in our temporary life, especially serving for eternal salvation, so that through your prayers we may be worthy to achieve a Christian death, painless, shameless, peaceful, and may we get rid of the wiles of the devil and eternal torment , we will be heirs to the endless and blessed Kingdom of Heaven. She, saints of God, do not stop praying for us, who flow to you with faith. If, because of the multitude of our sins, we are not worthy of your mercy, yet you, faithful imitators of God’s love for mankind, will create, so that we may bear fruits worthy of repentance and reach eternal rest, praising and blessing the wondrous Lord and God and our Savior Jesus Christ in His saints, and His Most Pure Mother, and your warm intercession, always, now, and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

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Horoscope sign Leo, those born on July 28 are self-centered and dynamic natures

People whose birthday is July 28 know all their shortcomings, and there are enough of them in the character of Leos born on this day. They should cultivate qualities that facilitate contact with other people. They lack diplomacy, patience, and respect for other people's views on the world. These people are mostly deep and convinced individualists, but if they feel that their interests are closely linked with the interests of the group, they will be able to get rid of many of the problems that complicate their lives. Life offers these proud people lessons that will lead to dramatic changes in their lives, if only those born on July 28 understand them correctly and practice them.
Here is one of them: Leos born on July 28 must learn to lose with dignity. Women, but mainly men, must realize that the desire to win at any cost is contrary to all norms of human communication. Leos may be able to come to an understanding of this truth only after a series of failures and cruel defeats. But not everyone is able to overcome their own egocentrism, since this is beyond their strength.

Astrological compatibility of those born on July 28th with other zodiac signs

Horoscope sign Leo can be successful in personal relationships in partnership with representatives of such zodiac signs as Libra, Gemini, Sagittarius and Aries. It is very unlikely that Leo, who was born on July 28, will be connected with Aquarius, Scorpio, Capricorn and Taurus.

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MONKEYS - 1920 zodiac year/ 1932 zodiac year/ 1944 zodiac year/ 1956 zodiac year/ 1968 zodiac year/ 1980 zodiac year/ 1992 zodiac year/ 2004 zodiac year/ 2016 zodiac year
ROoster - 1921 zodiac year/ 1933 zodiac year/ 1945 zodiac year/ 1957 zodiac year/ 1969 zodiac year/ 1981 zodiac year/ 1993 zodiac year/ 2005 zodiac year/ 2017 zodiac year
DOGS - 1922 zodiac year/ 1934 zodiac year/ 1946 zodiac year/ 1958 zodiac year/ 1970 zodiac year/ 1982 zodiac year/ 1994 zodiac year/ 2006 zodiac year/ 2018 zodiac year

BOAR / Pig / - 1923 zodiac year / 1935 zodiac year / 1947 zodiac year / 1959 zodiac year / 1971 zodiac year / 1983 zodiac year / 1995 zodiac year / 2007 zodiac year / 2019 zodiac year
RATS - 1924 zodiac year/ 1936 zodiac year/ 1948 zodiac year/ 1960 zodiac year/ 1972 zodiac year/ 1984 zodiac year/ 1996 zodiac year/ 2008 zodiac year/ 2020 zodiac year
Ox / Bull / - 1925 zodiac year / 1937 zodiac year / 1949 zodiac year / 1961 zodiac year / 1973 zodiac year / 1985 zodiac year / 1997 zodiac year / 2009 zodiac year / 2021 zodiac year

TIGER - 1926 zodiac year/ 1938 zodiac year/ 1950 zodiac year/ 1962 zodiac year/ 1974 zodiac year/ 1986 zodiac year/ 1998 zodiac year/ 2010 zodiac year/ 2022 zodiac year
RABBIT /Cat/ - 1927 zodiac year/ 1939 zodiac year/ 1951 zodiac year/ 1963 zodiac year/ 1975 zodiac year/ 1987 zodiac year/ 1999 zodiac year/ 2011 zodiac year/ 2023 zodiac year
DRAGON - 1928 zodiac year/ 1940 zodiac year/ 1952 zodiac year/ 1964 zodiac year/ 1976 zodiac year/ 1988 zodiac year/ 2000 zodiac year/ 2012 zodiac year/ 2024 zodiac year

SNAKES - 1929 zodiac year/ 1941 zodiac year/ 1953 zodiac year/ 1965 zodiac year/ 1977 zodiac year/ 1989 zodiac year/ 2001 zodiac year/ 2013 zodiac year/ 2025 zodiac year
HORSE - 1930 zodiac year/ 1942 zodiac year/ 1954 zodiac year/ 1966 zodiac year/ 1978 zodiac year/ 1990 zodiac year/ 2002 zodiac year/ 2014 zodiac year/ 2026 zodiac year
SHEEP/GOAT/ - 1931 zodiac year/ 1943 zodiac year/ 1955 zodiac year/ 1967 zodiac year/ 1979 zodiac year/ 1991 zodiac year/ 2003 zodiac year/ 2015 zodiac year/ 2027 zodiac year

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Born on July 28: meaning of birthday

The personalities born on July 28 are quite contradictory: the zodiac sign, on the one hand, endows them with enormous ambitions and ambition.

On the other hand, it makes them timid and extremely unsure of their own abilities. In general, they are very kind, distinguished by a meek, calm disposition, because of which they often risk dancing to someone else’s tune.

At the same time zodiac sign of people born on July 28, gives them a developed inner sense, listening to which, they can make the only right decisions and avoid many troubles. Often such people are even endowed with the gift of foresight and can predict the scenario for the development of future events.

If you were born on July 28, your zodiac sign is Leo, and it is not surprising that, first of all, you strive to self-actualize and prove your worth to everyone. In everything, you desperately strive to be the first and the best; this is dictated by many of your actions and even your behavior.

Your main difficulty is the lack of psychological flexibility, the inability to admit your mistakes and the fact that someone can generate more constructive ideas. This can ruin your reputation and turn others against you, and you yourself will not receive any joy from communication

It is extremely important to learn to listen and listen to others, to achieve mutual understanding, because without this, real success is simply unthinkable.

Only in interaction with others can you live a full life and do truly significant things. By understanding this and coping with their selfish narcissism, those born on July 28 will greatly simplify their lives and become truly happy people. Otherwise, they are doomed to eternal confrontation with the outside world and hopeless loneliness.

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July 28: influence of the sign Leo

On top of that, Leos born on July 28 run the risk of having difficulty finding personal happiness. The reason is their irreconcilable character, it is difficult for them to come to terms with other people's shortcomings, they cannot fully open up even to the closest person, as they constantly doubt their sincerity. They are wary and prejudiced towards everyone.

They simply need to reconsider their relationships with others, especially with representatives of the opposite sex, to see them not as rivals, but as partners. Understanding that interacting with another will not be a burden for them, but a relief, can significantly improve their quality of life.

Such persons also need to be attentive to financial issues; material well-being will be extremely unstable due to the inability to properly manage wages or the lack of stable sources of income.

On July 28, 1983, a successful, incredibly sought after modern theater and film actor, Ivan Zhidkov, was born. For the first time on the big screen, Ivan appeared in the film “In the Constellation of the Bull” (2003), which was followed by roles in numerous Russian TV series and films.