Saints Graft Moors Leg On White
by Wellcome Images
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Saints Graft Moors Leg On White
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Wellcome Images
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Photograph - Photograph
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St. Cosmas and St. Damian, patron saints of medicine, grafting the leg of an Ethiopian gladiator onto a Christian bell-tower keeper. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, c. 1495. Cosmas and Damian were physician brothers who practiced in Aleppo (modern-day Syria). They were martyred in the 4th century AD. The most famous legend surrounding these saints concerns a bell-tower keeper with a gangrenous leg who prayed at the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Rome. In a miraculous operation, the man's leg was amputated and successfully replaced with the leg of an Ethiopian gladiator who had recently died. The subject became popular with artists.
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April 18th, 2016
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