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Quotation from Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints by Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition
“The physician saints were called anargyroi, unmercenaries, because their legends remember them as healers who did not take payment for medicine”
Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints, Source packet, Sts. Cosmas and Damian, trans. Public-domain source-packet summary
The unmercenary title supplies the ethical heart of their medical cult.
Citation: "The physician saints were called anargyroi, unmercenaries, because their legends remember them as healers who did not take payment for medicine" — Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition, Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints, Source packet, Sts. Cosmas and Damian, trans. Public-domain source-packet summary. (id sts-cosmas-and-damian-q3)
Portrait: Saints Cosmas and Damian, miniature from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany ., Jean Bourdichon, Public domain.
