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Holy unmercenaries and wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian Originally from Asia, brothers. The father was a pagan, the mother a Christian. Having been widowed in her youth, she raised her children in the fear of God. Cosmas and Damian, having learned the art of medicine, helped the poor, without accepting any payment, without seeking either wealth or glory, and worked for the sake of God and the glory of His name. They died peacefully. According to popular belief, St. They pray to Cosma and Damian for successful learning to read and write. Holy torment Erminingeld, Tsarevich of Gotfsky Erminingeld, the son of King Leovigild, who adhered to the Arian heresy, was made co-ruler of his father with the appointment of having the city of Seville as his residence, while his father lived in the city of Toledo, in 579 he married in Metz, in France, with Ingunda, the daughter of King Sigebert, and was, through Bishop Leander, converted by his wife from Arianism to Orthodoxy. After an internecine war that arose between father and son, who opposed the father’s demands that he return to Arianism, Erminingeld, due to the small number of Orthodox Christians in Seville, where he defended himself against the violent measures of his father, and as a result of the betrayal of the Romans, was captured and, by order of his father, beheaded in prison in 586, on the night of Holy Easter, from the 13th to the 14th April. Before his death, Leovigild, however, realized his terrible crime, and also realized the untruth of the Arian teaching; nevertheless, he was so cowardly that he did not dare to openly admit his error and limited himself to putting aside his hatred of Bishop Leander and instructed him to instill the right faith in his youngest son Rehader, whom he then appointed heir to his throne. Reghader subsequently served as a blessed instrument for the conversion of all his subjects from Arianism to Orthodoxy. Holy martyrs Timothy and the Moors Holy martyrs Timothy and the Moors (see May 3rd).