E07813: The Miracles of *Artemios (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01128) recounts the miraculous healing by the saint in Constantinople of a Chian merchant from a disease of the testicles, appearing in a dream to the man sleeping on his ship and touching his testicles. The man returned to thank the saint at his shrine. Written in Greek in Constantinople, 582/668; assembled as a collection, 658/668.
Creators: name: Julia
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2019
Subjects: History

description: Miracles of Artemios (BHG 173), 5<br><br>Ἀνήρ τις τοὔνομα Εὔπορος, τῷ γένει Χῖος, πραγματευτής, ἐκ πλείστων χρόνων καταβαρὴς ὢν καὶ οὐ μετρίως<br>ὀδυνώμενος, ἐνδημήσας ἐν τῇ πανευδαίμονι πόλει ποτὲ καὶ τῇ πραγματείᾳ σχολάζων ἤκουσεν περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου μάρτυρος, καὶ ἐλθὼν προσεκαρτέρησεν αὐτῷ ὡσεὶ μῆνας τρεῖς. καταλαβόντος δὲ τοῦ καιροῦ τοῦ ἀποπλεῦσαι αὐτὸν ἐντεῦθεν, καὶ τῶν ναυτῶν ἐπειγόντων, ἐν ᾧ ἐνέβαλεν πλοίῳ ἀνεχώρησεν ἄπρακτος, πάνυ συγκεχυμένος τὴν<br>ψυχήν. κατὰ δὲ θείαν πρόνοιαν ἀνέμου ἐναντίου πνεύσαντος, ὥρμησεν τὸ εἰρημένον πλοῖον εἰς τὸ Ἕβδομον, εἰς τὴν καλουμένην Μαγναύραν. ὀδυρόμενος δὲ ὁ ἀνὴρ τῆς θεραπείας τὴν ἀστοχίαν, ὁρᾷ κατ’ ὄναρ τὸν ἅγιον τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ λέγοντα αὐτῷ· “Τί ἔχεις; τί λυπῇ καὶ ἄχθῃ καὶ ἀδημονεῖς”; ὁ δὲ δακρύσας καὶ στενάξας ἐγκάρδιον ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ, ὅτι “Ἀσθενῶ τοὺς διδύμους μου, καὶ προσεκαρτέρησα ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου Βαπτιστοῦ ἐν τῇ Ὀξείᾳ τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀρτεμίου, καὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι μου ἐμποδών μοι γεγόνασιν εἰς τὸ ὑγιᾶναι”. καὶ λέγει πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ ἅγιος μάρτυς· “Ἀνάστειλον τὰ ἱμάτιά σου· ἄφες ἴδω σε”. καὶ ἀνασύραντος αὐτοῦ τὸν χιτῶνα, ἥψατο τῶν διδύμων αὐτοῦ. διυ-πνισθεὶς δὲ καὶ τὸν ὄνειρον συμβάλλων ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ φαντασίαν εἶναι δοκῶν, ἐσχετλίαζεν ἑαυτόν, λέγων ὅραμα εἶναι τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ οὐκ ἀληθές. εἶτα ψηλαφήσας ηὗρεν ὅτι ὑγιὴς ἦν. εὐθέως οὖν τὰ πρὸς τὴν χρείαν τροφῆς τε καὶ προσφορᾶς λαβὼν ἐξῆλθεν τοῦ πλοίου, τὴν πορείαν πρὸς τὸν ἅγιον ποιησάμενος. οἱ δὲ ναῦται ἀγνοοῦντες τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ θαύματος καὶ τὸν τρόπον δι’ ὃν ἐξῆλθεν, διεκώλυον αὐτὸν τῆς ὁρμῆς λέγοντες· “Ποῦ ἀπέρχῃ; ἐὰν πνεύσῃ ἄνεμος, ἐκπλωΐζομεν καὶ ἔξω μένεις”. ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐτοῖς· “Μεθ’ ὑγείας πλεύσατε, μὴ ἐμποδίζεσθε”. καὶ καταλείψας αὐτοὺς ἀπῆλθεν ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου, ἔνθα κατάκειται ὁ ἅγιος, καὶ ηὐχαρίστησεν τῷ θεῷ. καὶ πάλιν ὑποστρέψας ηὗρεν ἔτι τὸ πλοῖον ὁρμοῦν· ἐν ᾧ ἀποπλεύσας εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἅπασιν τοῖς ἐκεῖσε τὰ μεγαλεῖα τοῦ θεοῦ ἀνεκήρυττεν.<br><br>'A certain man by the name of Europos, a Chian by birth, a merchant, had a hernia for very many years and suffered exceedingly. Once when he was staying in the divinely favoured city and devoting himself to business, he heard about the holy martyr and coming there he waited upon him about three months. As the time came for him to sail away from there, because the sailors were in a hurry, he departed without success in the ship in which he came, although he was very unsettled in spirit. But since, by Divine Providence, a head wind was blowing, the aforementioned ship lay at anchor at the Hebdomon by the place called Magnaura. This man, dismayed over his failure to be healed, saw the saint that night in a dream speaking to him thus: "What is the trouble? Why are you pained and grieved and in distress?" Breaking into tears and groaning from the depths of his heart, he replied: "I am diseased in my testicles and I waited in the church of St. John the Baptist in the Oxeia near St. Artemios but my sins prevented me from being healed." And the holy martyr said to him: "Lift up your garments. Let me see you." And after he pulled his tunic, Artemios touched his testicles. Awakened from sleep and interpreting the dream to himself and deeming it all to be a fantasy, he berated himself, saying that the thing was a vision and not real. Then, touching himself, he found that he was healed. So immediately he took some necessities for making a meal and an offering and disembarked in order to make a trip to the saint. But the sailors, unaware of the mystery of the miracle and the reason why he was seeking to disembark, tried to prevent him from starting saying: "Where are you off to? If the wind starts blowing, we sail off and you are going to be left ashore!" But he said to them: "Set sail with my blessing but do not get in my way." And so he forsook them and went to the church of St. John where the saint lies in repose and gave thanks to God. And making his way back again [to the Hebdomon], he found the ship still lying at anchor. After sailing home on it, he proclaimed God's greatness to all those there.'<br><br>Text: Papadopoulos-Kerameus 1909; translation: Crisafulli and Nesbitt 1997. <br>