STS. COSMAS AND DAMIAN (NOV. 1ST)
Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Unmercenary Physicians, Imagined in Oriental Garb Edited by Bp. Joseph ( Archeparchate ) On the 1st November, the Church honors the Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, of Mesopotamia, and their mother, St Theodota (3rd c.). Cosmas and Damian were unmercenaries and miracle-workers. They were brothers both in the flesh and in the spirit, born somewhere in Asia Minor of a pagan father and a Christian mother. After their father's death, their mother Theodota devoted all her time and effort to educating her sons and raising them as true Christians. God helped her, and her sons matured as sweet fruit and luminaries of the world. They were learned in the art of medicine and ministered to the sick without payment, not so much with medicine as by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.They were called "unmercenary physicians," that is, unpaid physicians, for they healed freely and thus fulfilled the commandment of Christ: Freely ye have rec...
