Thursday, December 17, 2009

Holy Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian

Among the Unmercenary Physicians of the Orthodox Church are three sets of brothers named Cosmas and Damian:  Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Cilicia (Arabia) (Oct. 17), Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor or Mesopotamia (Nov. 1), and Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Rome (July 1).  These links go to accounts of their lives on the website of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

You can also listen to accounts of the lives of Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Cilicia and Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Rome on an Ancient Faith Radio podcast.

St. Theodeta, whose life is briefly mentioned on the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese website, is the mother of the twin Sts. Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor.


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