E07823: The Miracles of *Artemios (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01128) recounts the miraculous healing by the saint at his shrine in Constantinople of an infant boy from a disease of the testicles. The saint appeared to the mother in a dream in which he performed a surgical intervention; on awaking, she found her baby healthy. 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), 42<br><br>Γυνή τις ἔσχεν υἱὸν νήπιον. οὗτος ἠσθένησεν τὸν δίδυμον αὑτοῦ τὸν ἀριστερόν, ὃς ἦν καὶ ἐξωγκωμένος, καὶ ὑπελάμβανεν ὅτι αὐτὸν μόνον ἐνόσει· ὁ δὲ τοὺς δύο ἤλγει διδύμους. προσκαρτερούσης δὲ αὐτῆς, ἤγουν τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦμους. προσκαρτερούσης δὲ αὐτῆς, ἤγουν τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ παιδός, ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ Προδρόμου τῷ ἁγίῳ Ἀρτεμίῳ, θρήνους τε τοῦ παιδὸς ἀφορήτους ἐκ τῆς ὀδύνης ἀναπέμποντος, τῆς τε μητρὸς ὀδυνωμένης τὰ σπλάγχνα, ἐν μιᾷ τῶν νυκτῶν φαίνεται αὐτῇ ὁ ἅγιος καθ’ ὕπνους ἐν σχήματι ἰατροῦ κατέχοντος ὡς οἷα θήκην τινὰ ἐργαλεῖα ἰατρικά· ἅτινα παρὰ τῇ στρωμνῇ, ἐν ᾗ ἀνέκειτο ἥ τε μήτηρ καὶ τὸ νήπιον, κενώσας ἔφη αὐτῇ· “Τί ἔχει τὸ παιδίον σου καὶ ὀδύρῃ σὺν αὐτῷ”; ἡ δὲ ἔφη· “Τὸ αἰδοῖον αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀριστερὸν νοσεῖ”. λέγει αὐτῇ· “Ἀπογύμνωσον αὐτό, ἄφες ἴδω”. τῆς δὲ οὕτως ποιησάσης, ὡς εἶδεν αὐτό, ἔφη αὐτῇ· “Τοὺς δύο νοσεῖ τὸ παιδίον σου διδύμους”. καὶ λαβὼν τῇ χειρὶ ἓν τῶν παρακειμένων ἐργαλείων, ὡς ὁρμᾷ ἀπενέγκαι αὐτὸ ἐπὶ τὸν δίδυμον τοῦ παιδός, ἔκραξεν ἡ μήτηρ γοερῶς· “Ἐγὼ εἰς ἰατρὸν οὐκ ἠνεσχόμην δοῦναι τὸ παιδίον μου, ἀλλ’ ἤγαγον αὐτὸ εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἀρτέμιον, ἵνα αὐτὸς αὐτὸ ἐπισκέψηται, καὶ σὺ τί ποιεῖς, ἄνθρωπε; φονεῦσαι ἦλθες τὸ παιδίον μου”; καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἡ μήτηρ· ὁ δὲ τὸ ἐργαλεῖον προσήγγεισεν τῷ διδύμῳ, πήξας ὡσάν τις ἁπλῆν θέλων δοῦναι. καὶ τὸ παιδίον ᾐσθάνθη καὶ ἔκραζεν· ἡ δὲ μήτηρ τῇ φωνῇ τοῦ παιδὸς διυπνισθεῖσα καὶ πρὸς τὸν ὄνειρον τὸν φόβον ἔχουσα, ὑπολαβοῦσα χειρουργηθέντα αὐτὸν εὑρεῖν αὐτὸν ᾑμαγμένον, εἶδεν αὐτὸν ὄντα ὑγιῆ, μηδὲν κακὸν ἔχοντα, μηδὲ τὸν οἱονδήποτε ἰχῶρα, ἢ πύου σπῖλον ἢ τομῆς· καὶ γνοῦσα τὴν τοῦ<br>ἁγίου εἶναι θαυματουργίαν, δοξάζουσα τὸν θεόν, ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὰ ἴδια χαίρουσα.<br><br>'A certain woman had an infant son. The [son] became diseased in his left testicle which was also swollen and she was under the impression that he was diseased in only one; but in reality he was pained in both testicles. And as she was waiting upon St. Artemios in the church of the Forerunner (namely the mother of the very child), while the child was uttering unbearable cries of anguish from the pain and, while the mother was feeling grief in her breast, one night the saint appeared to her in her sleep in the guise of a physician holding apparently a chest of medical instruments; after emptying them beside the mattress on which the mother and the infant were reclining, he said to her: "What is wrong with your child and why are you wailing with him?" She replied: "his left testicle is diseased." He said to her: "Undress him, let me see." After she did so, when he saw the child, he said to her: "Your child is diseased in both testicles." And when he took in his hand one of the instruments lying nearby, and started to bring it to bear upon the child's testicle, the mother screamed in distress: "I refused to give my child to a doctor but brought him to St. Artemios in order that he might himself examine him and you, man, what are you doing? Did you come to murder my child?" These things the mother said; but he brought the instrument near the testicle and inserted it like one wishing to make a single incision. And the child sensed and began crying. The mother, awakened by the child's cry and fearful because of the dream and supposing that he had been operated upon and that she would find him stained with blood, saw that he was healed, with no disease, and no liquid whatsoever nor a pus stain nor an incision. And recognizing the miraculous work of the saint, glorifying God, she departed for home rejoicing.'<br><br><br>Text: Papadopoulos-Kerameus 1909. Translation: Crisafulli and Nesbitt 1997, 216-17. <br>