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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John, physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt

Saint ID

S00406

Number in BH

BHG 469-470, 472-479i

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Physicians, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00563Greek epigram, by the medical scholar Senekas, composed to be inscribed on the book of the Miracles of *Kyros and Ioannes (Cyrus and John) (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) by Sophronius of Jerusalem (written in c. 610). Recorded in the 10th c. Greek Anthology.
E01001Two Coptic miracles of Apa *Mena (soldier and martyr of Abu Mena, S00073), attributed to the time of Damian, archbishop of Alexandria (576–605), concerned with the building of his shrine and the celebration of his feast day; preserved in a 9th century parchment codex.
E01689Greek inscription on a house at Barad/Brad in the Limestone Massif (north Syria), with a list of six or more saints: a saint *John (presumably either the Baptist, S00020, or the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *George (soldier and martyr, S00259), *Christophoros (martyr of Pamphylia, S00616), *Euphemia (probably the martyr of Chalcedon, S00017), *Philotheos (possibly the martyr of Antioch, S00878), possibly *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), a certain *Eusebios, possibly *Thomas the Apostle (S00199), and other unnamed martyrs. Probably 5th/6th c.
E01832Inscribed red marble reliquary from the East church (the cathedral church) in Apamea on the Orontes (central Syria), recording relics of the following saints: *Ioudas, a saint whose name is lost (D[---]),*Kallinikos (possibly the martyr of Gangra, S00923), *Ioannes/John 'Stratiotes', and the *Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia (S00103). Probably 6th c.
E02897The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 31 January *Zacharias (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 632, S01363), *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406).
E03209The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 28 June, at the church of the Holy Anastasis, *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406).
E03563Three fragmentary Greek homilies of the 5th or 6th centuries, attributed to Cyril of Alexandria, refer to the translation of the relics of *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) from the shrine of *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293) in Alexandria to the church of the Evangelists at the monastery of Metanoia, between Kanopos and Menuthis (Lower Egypt). The author refers to the story of the martyrs and the identification of their relics. The new shrine (martyrion) aims at preventing the locals from visiting pagan shrines for healing.
E03580Floor-mosaic with a bilingual Greek and Christian-Palestinian Aramaic inscription possibly referring to an unspecified saint *John (probably the Baptist, S00020), but sometimes argued to have recorded the names of *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Alexandria, S00406). Found at Khirbet Umm er-Rus near Beit Jimal and Eleutheropolis, in the Judean Hills, c. 20 km to the south-west of Jerusalem (Roman province of Palaestina I). Probably 6th-7th c.
E03784The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 June probably *Habbakuk (Old testament prophet, S01268), *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) and their companion martyred women (S00167), and the Apostles *Peter (S00036) and Paul (S00008).
E04077Coptic funerary inscription from unknown Egyptian provenance, invoking God to take care of a presbyter of Apa *Kyros (S01932); datable to the 6th–8th century.
E05169The Latin Calendar of Sinai records the feasts of saints through the year, followed by a list of the apostles to various regions of Christianity. Written possibly in North Africa, possibly in the 7th/8th c.; preserved in a manuscript, probably of the 9th c., in St Catherine's monastery, Sinai. Basic Entry.
E05914Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (2), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Theodoros, an Alexandrian, from leucoma at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06029Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (1), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Ammonios, a prominent citizen of Alexandria, from scrofula and a stomach disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06035Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (3), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed the broken leg of Kalos, an Alexandrian, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06037Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (4), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Isidoros, from the Alexandrian district of Maioumas, from a pulmonary disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06044Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (5), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from an occlusion Menas, a philoponos and director of an Alexandrian confraternity of *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288), at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06247Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (6), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from an inguinal fistula Geddaios, an Alexandrian, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06259Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (7), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), the weakness of the legs of a certain Menas of Alexandria. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06263Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (8), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) saved from shipwreck Christodoros, oikonomos/manager of their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt); and later, summoned by *Theodore 'Stratelates' (general and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita, S00136), also cured him of buboes. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06839Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (9), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Theodora, wife of the oikonomos of their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), both of an eye disease and the consequences of a bad fall. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06903Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (10), recounts how *Kyros/Cyrus and Ioannes/John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Marou, the young daughter of the oikonomos of their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), from disease of both the teeth and ears, and an older woman, named Maria, of the same affliction; in the first miracle, Cyrus acts alone. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06938Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (11), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) saved the life of a little girl, when she fell out of a window of her house by their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt); Sophronius also describes the symbolic dream of a certain deacon Ioannes, which predicted this miracle. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E06978Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (12), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a rich and dissolute young man of Alexandria, Ioulianos, in both body and soul by making him renounce the heresy of the Gaianites and join the Catholic Church in a church of Alexandria dedicated to *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07022Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (13), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Elias, an Alexandrian, of leprosy at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), even though he had also sought aid from *Metras (martyr of Alexandria, S00045) at his shrine in Alexandria. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07026Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (14), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered a poor man of Alexandria, Theopompos, from a demonic possession, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07028Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (15), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes /Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Ioannes, an Alexandrian, from elephantiasis at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07056Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (16), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Zacharias, an Alexandrian, from a disease of the testicles at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07057Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (17), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Ioannes, a rich Alexandrian, from a thigh disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07062Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (18), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Paulos, a poor man of Alexandria, from a disease of the head at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07063Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (19), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Stephanis, an Alexandrian, from cancer at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07066Clay stamp bearing an image of two male saints, and a Greek inscription mentioning a martyr whose name is lost. Found during archaeological excavations at Chersonesos/Cherson (north Black Sea); 6th century.
E07068Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (20), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Maria, an Alexandrian, from dropsy at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07070Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (21), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Martyria, an Alexandrian, from a stomach disease at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07094Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (22), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a young man of Alexandria, Sarapammon, from a disease of the leg at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07096Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (23), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Gennadios, an Alexandrian, from a disease of the head at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07099Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (24), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed two women of Alexandria (one rich, one poor), both named after the martyr Iouliana (perhaps *Iouliana/Iouliana, the fellow martyr of Paulos of Ptolemais, S01535), respectively from a chest disease and blindness, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07102Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (25), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Elpidia, an Alexandrian, from a bloody flux at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07108Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (26), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Theodora, an Alexandrian, from stomach pains at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07111Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (27), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Theodoros, an Alexandrian, from poison in his intestines at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07113Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (28), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from blindness at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt) Photeinos, a man who sold fruit in front of the Alexandrian church of the 'three holy children' (certainly the *Three Hebrew Youths of the Old Testament Book of Daniel, S01198); involved in the cure was another blind Alexandrian, Nemesion, a rich and influential man who was a follower of the doctrine of fatality; the latter was not cured but commemorated the miracle by setting up at the shrine images of Christ, *John the Baptist (S00020) and Saint Kyros. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07147The Greek Life of *Spyridon (bishop of Trimithous in Cyprus, ob. 348, S00790) by Theodore, bishop of Paphos, paraphrases a biography of the saint by Triphyllios, which was written in verse in the late 4th century (now lost). Theodore augments Triphyllios’ poem with a miracle account derived from a version of the saint’s life, reportedly found in Egypt, and five miracle stories collected by the author himself. Written around AD 656 and read at the saint's festival in Trimithous.
E07148The Greek Life of *Spyridon (bishop of Trimithous in Cyprus, ob. 348, S00790) by Theodore, bishop of Paphos, reports a miracle of the saint, which was depicted in a painting in his church at Trimithous, but not understood until identified from an account of the saint’s life found in Egypt which was read at the saint’s feast in 656. Written in c. 656 in Paphos or Trimithous.
E07156Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (29), recounts how *Kyros/Cyrus and Ioannes/John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) punished and then healed a rich and noble Alexandrian, Athanasia, who doubted their sainthood on account of the lack of reliable trial records for their martyrdom. Written in Greek in Alexandria (Lower Egypt), 610/615.
E07359Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (30), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) struck with paralysis and then healed and converted Gesios, a teacher of medicine in Alexandria and a sceptical Christian, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07360Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (31), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) punished Theodoros, an Alexandrian, for his blasphemy, by depriving him of his sight, and later restored it; all at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07361Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (32), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) punished with death a pagan Alexandrian, Agapios, for sacrilegiously taking communion at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07362Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (33), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed at her home in Alexandria a certain Kosmiana, from an injury to her back incurred on a journey to their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07363Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (34), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), an Alexandrian boy, Kallinikos, from a terrible pain in the stomach caused by a serpent that he had swallowed. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07364Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (35), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) liberated Theophilos, an Alexandrian, from a magical binding spell, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07375Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (36), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), through multiple appearances in dreams healed from gout and converted Theodoros, a man from Thennesos (Lower Egypt) who was a heretical follower of Julian of Halicarnassus, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). An icon is described which represented Christ, *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) and *John (the Baptist, S00020), surrounded by prophets, apostles and martyrs. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07439Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (37), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from blindness and converted Ioannes, a man from Cynopolis (Upper Egypt) who was a heretical follower of Theodosius and Severus, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07545Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (38), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from blindness and converted Stephanos, a man from Nikiou (Lower Egypt) who was a heretical follower of Theodosius and Severus, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07546Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (39), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed and converted two heretics from Herakleion and Alexandria (both close to the shrine), followers of the sect of Theodosius and Severus, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07548Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (40), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed several times Ioannes, a man from Libya, and delivered him from a demonic possession, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07549Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (41), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from a monstrous deformity a young boy from Babylon (Lower Egypt) named Menas, after *Menas (the soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073), at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07558Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (42), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a surveyor named Eugenios from dropsy, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07559Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (43), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed the diseased leg of Taurinos, a maker of nails from a village close to their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07560Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (44), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Anna, a young religious virgin from Herakleion (close to the shrine), from a stomach disease, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07573Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (45), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a camel-driver, from a village on Lake Mareotis (Lower Egypt), of deafness, at their shrine at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07665Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (46), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from blindness two men who came to their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), one from a village close to the sanctuary of *Menas (soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073), the other from the monastery of Tabennesos (in Lower and Upper Egypt, respectively), by sending them to wash at the pool of Siloam in Jerusalem. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07692Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (47), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from blindness Patrikios, a man from Pelusium (in the western delta of Lower Egypt), at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07693Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (48), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from a mysterious disease of the intestines Antonios, a man from the Thebaid (Upper Egypt), and an unnamed woman, similarly afflicted, from an Egyptian village, both at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07694Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (49), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) punished two thieves who appropriated offerings dedicated to them at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07695Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (50), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Nonnos, a rich aristocrat from Libya living at Nikiou (Lower Egypt), from a leg disease at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07696Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (51), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed the presbyter Georgios, originally from Tarsus in Cilicia (south-east Asia Minor), from a cataract and delivered him from death during a pestilence, both times at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Sophronius also mentions veneration of *Paul (the Apostle, S00008) and *Menas (soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07759Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of the Saints Cyrus and John (52), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from paralysis Zosimos, a doctor from Constantinople, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07760Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (53), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) rescued and healed Theodoros, a slave from Eleutheropolis in Palestine, from drowning and the bite of a shark, at the seashore near their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). The afflicted man had first invoked *Theodore (the soldier and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita, S00480). Written in Geek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07762Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (54), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered a young boy from Damascus, Isidoros, from demonic possession, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07769Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (55), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered Theodoros, a man from Lapithos on Cyprus, from a leg disease caused by magic, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07773Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (56), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered Georgios, a Cypriot, from a leg disease caused by a demon, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07774Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (57), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered Kyriakos, a Rhodian, from a demonic possession, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07775Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (58), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Petros, a man from the province of Palaestina Tertia, of scrofula at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07776Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (59), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a certain Stephanos, from Aphrodisias (western Asia Minor), of a haemorrhage at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07777Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (60), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a certain Theodoros from Constantinople of an inflammation of the foot, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07788Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (61), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed Philemon, a man from a village in Phoenicia, from both a neck and a liver disease at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07790Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (62), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) foretold her imminent death to a certain Rhodopis, who had come from Alexandria in search of a cure at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07791Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (63), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered a certain Elpidios from a demonic possession, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07798Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (64), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed a certain Phoenician from Tyre, who had been mute from birth, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07799Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (65), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered a certain Theodoros from Anazarba in Cilicia (south-eastern Asia Minor) both from blindness and a demonic possession, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07800Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (66), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from dropsy a certain Menas from Patara in Lycia (western Asia Minor), at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07801Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (67), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) delivered Georgios, a Cypriot, from demonic possession, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). They also punished by whipping Kaloetes, a doorkeeper at the shrine, for seeking aid for Georgios from physicians, but afterwards healed his wounds. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07825Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (68), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406) healed from poisoning Ioannia, an aristocratic woman from Caesarea of Palestine, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07826Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (69), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), healed of his blindness a certain Ioannis from Rome, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E07827Sophronius of Jerusalem, in his Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John (70), recounts how *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), aided by *Theodore 'Stratelates' (general and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita, S00136) and *Thomas (the Apostle, S00199), healed a disease of his eyes, at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt), and how he has composed this book in gratitude. Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615.
E08077Six relic labels at the monastery of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune (south-east Gaul), datable by their script to the 2nd half of the 7th c., for relics of various saints. Written in Latin, either where the relics originated, or at Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
E08545Sophronius of Jerusalem writes the Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John recounting seventy miracles of *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), almost all at their sanctuary at Menouthis (near Alexandria, Lower Egypt). Written in Greek in Alexandria, 610/615. Overview entry