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Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition
Medieval Latin and Byzantine traditions about Saints Cosmas and Damian
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Cosmas and Damian are late antique physician martyrs whose cult spread through Greek, Syriac, Latin, Byzantine, and western medieval traditions. Jacobus de Voragine made them familiar to medieval Latin readers through the Golden Legend, while Byzantine miracle collections and shrine practice made them enduring patrons of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, and healing without fee.
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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. The historical core is modest.