(), a celebrated physician, saint, and martyr, who
lived in the third and fourth centuries after Christ. He is said to have been the brother of
St. Damianus, with whose
A medical prescription attributed to them is preserved by Arraldus Villanovanus.
Antidot. p. 453, in Opera, ed. Basil.
1585.
There are several Greek homilies still extant in MS., written or preached in their honour. Their memory is observed by the Greek and Roman Churches on the 27th of September.
Acta Sanct., Sept. vol. vii. p. 428; Börner, De
Cosma et Dam... Commentatio, Helmest. 1751, 4to.; Fabric. Bihl.
Gr. vol. ix. p. 68, 13.128, ed. vet.; Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum
Professione Medicorum ; Carpzovius, De Medicis ab Ecclesia pro Sanctis
habitis.