St. Cyrus and St. John
St. Cyrus was a physician of Alexandria who treated the sick without charge, healing souls as well as bodies, and during the persecution of Diocletian he withdrew to Arabia and became a monk; St. John, a pious soldier from Edessa, sought him out and became his companion in asceticism.
When the Christian woman Athanasia and her three young daughters were arrested at Canopus in Egypt, the two saints came to strengthen them, were themselves seized, and after cruel tortures all were beheaded around the year 311. Their relics later worked countless healings, and the Church honors them among the Holy Unmercenaries, physicians who took no payment.
Whoever wishes to avoid being ill should refrain from sin, for sin is often the cause of bodily illness.
Troparion · Tone 5
O Christ God, You have given us the miracles of Your martyrs, Cyrus and John, as an invincible rampart; through their prayers, frustrate the plans of the heathens, and strengthen the faith of the Orthodox Christians, for You alone are good and love mankind.
Kontakion · Tone 3
Having received the gift of miracles through divine grace, O saints, you work wonders in the world unceasingly. You remove all of our passions through your invisible surgery, divinely-wise Cyrus and glorious John, for you are truly divine physicians.
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