Today, November 14, the Church remembers Saints Cosmas and Damian of Asiatranslated

The memory of the holy unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian of Asia and their mother the Venerable Theodotia (+ III century) is celebrated by the Orthodox Church on November 14.

Saints Cosmas and Damian were brothers. They were born in Asia Minor and raised by a pious Christian mother.

They were famous doctors. God gave them the gift of healing, and the holy brothers generously shared this gift with all suffering people.

The brothers had a strict rule - not to take anything from the people they healed. All their lives they treated people’s physical and mental illnesses with their medical art and the word of God.

In honor of the holy brothers, many churches were built on Russian soil, which are called Cosmodamian.

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Holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian:  were there two, four or six?

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