Transfer of the relics of the martyrs Cyrus and John

28 June commemorates the martyrdoms of the two saints Cyrus and John, who died for Christ on 31 January, during the reign of Diocletian, in the city of Conopus, twelve leagues from the great city of Alexandria.

The healing powers of these holy martyrs were found after a long time (from the day of their martyrdom); they were found precisely when the Orthodox Christians, defeating the idol worshippers of the Hellenes, began to build temples everywhere without fear.

In 395 C.E., after defeating the western king Maximus [actually a pretender to the royal throne] with all his troops, he sent a group of men to his fathers to ask them for help.

The king wrote to Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, about his father, asking him to send Senufus to him in Constantinople, so that he could be strengthened by his blessing and prayers in the fight against enemies.

Finally, after the patriarch's earnest pleas, Senufus took his chlamyd and staff, lifted them upward, and turned to the east; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said: "Lord God of all power, I humbly beseech you to give this chlamyd and this staff the strength that you would have given me by your mercy if I had gone there".

Send this to the king in my stead, and write to him, that in battle he may be clothed with the chlamydia, and take the staff in his hand, and go boldly before his army against the enemies; and he shall see the power of God.

The king, having received the message with faith and doing everything according to the words of the saint, won a glorious victory over the enemies. In memory of this victory, as well as in remembrance of the saint Senufia, the people of the city of Alexandria carved a statue of the king standing on a high pedestal; on the statue the king was dressed in a queen's robe and had a staff in his hand; and every year the people of the city of Alexandria solemnly celebrated the day of that victory, giving thanks to God.

From this time onwards, thanks to the increasing spread of Christianity, the believers began to build temples in Alexandria and throughout Egypt. When Patriarch Theophilus wanted to build a large church in the name of the holy Apostles in Konop, the relics of these holy miracle-workers Cyrus and John were found.

And he said unto him, Behold, a place called Manuphin, which was not far from Knospus, where there was an ancient house of prayer, and where demons dwelt: and there was much terror in the place, for there dwelt many unclean spirits.

Patriarch Theophilus, while he was still alive, wanted to cleanse the place of demons and sanctify it for the glory of God, but, distracted by other concerns as he neared the end of his days, the saint did not manage to carry out his intention.

And behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a vision, commanding him to carry to Manuphin the relics of the holy martyrs Cyrus and John, to drive out the demonic power from there.

It is necessary to recall here in brief words the miracles performed by these holy miracle-workers Cyrus and John.

And it came to pass, when the king's son Ammonius, the son of the governor of the city, was born, that he had on his neck a sore sore sore, which grew inward, which the physicians called scrofulae, or strumae; and the sore grew more and more sore, and made his neck very heavy, and threatened his life; and many skilled physicians were called, but they did not make him well.

The father and his son, greatly distressed, left those physicians and sought the help of the holy miracle-workers, Cyrus and John; and he began to pray with tears before their honourable remains, asking them to give his son health. The saints, appearing in a vision, ordered the young man first to abandon the concerns of wealth and fame and, as a sign of humility, to wipe out the dust from their temple; then, making a plaster of wax mixed with bread, they ordered them to cover the neck and throat of the sick man.

And it came to pass, when all this was done, that Ammonijah was healed of his boils, and his boils were taken away, and he was healed by the prayers of the holy doctors, who did not pay him.

And his stomach became so sore that he could neither eat nor drink, and whatsoever he took out of his mouth was vomited out; and he turned again to his physicians, to Cyrus and John, and prayed to them with tears.

And these saints, who appeared to him in a vision, first rebuked him for his pride, and commanded him to take off his fine garments, and to put on sackcloth; and they took water-pans, and commanded that cold water should be carried to their sick brethren and to the poor, to quench their thirst.

And when he had done all this, he was healed. And a certain man of Alexandria, named Theodorus, who had been blind for a long time, was brought to the church of Manuphin, and prayed earnestly that he might be healed of his blindness.

And he went and washed, and wiped his face with the towel, and immediately he saw again, and felt that a lump like scales fell from his eyes. And he returned with joy to the church, and showed all the people the marks of his blindness.

One man, whose name was Colus, fell off a flight of stairs and was crushed in his heel. He had been taken to many doctors, but by no means was he saved.

A man named Isidore of Mayyuma [Mayyuma <unk> a port city in Palestine, serving as a harbor for Gaza, an ancient city of that country, located near Jerusalem. Known as the place of the episcopal activity of Saint Cosmas (his memory <unk> 12th October).] suffered from a liver disease, which, having started to rot, turned into blood, inflamed and spat out with blood.

And when the man could get no relief from any physician, he turned to the many-hearted spirits of these holy martyrs, who appeared to him, not in a dream, but in a clear vision, and gave him a piece of lemon to taste.

And when the sick man had eaten, his stomach rose up, and he vomited a great worm, which bit into his liver; and the holy physicians were no more; and Isidore, being healed, thanked God and his saints.

And there was a man of Minah, the ruler of Philopon, who had a great fever; and his stomach was so stiff that he could not go out; and all the medicines that were given to him by mouth did not help him, but made his stomach more heavy, and he was in it.

And the man suffered two weeks, and his sickness was very grievous, so that he despaired of the help of the physicians. And when he remembered the holy unpaid physicians Cyrus and John, Mina ordered to be carried with a bed to Manuphin to their multifarious relics. While he was praying at the relics with tears, he dozed and fell asleep, and the saints appeared to him and gave him a taste of the fig.

When he woke up, he saw a piece of fig lying by his side and ate it. Immediately his fever left him and he was healed.

Another Mina, light and quick on his feet, like the ancient Asael [Asael <unk> son of David's sister Zeruiah, brother of Joab's chief commander, <unk> one of David's chief commanders.], "like a gazelle in the field" (2 Kings 2:18), was so sick with his feet that he could not walk at all, and he lay in bed for a long time, because his feet were very swollen.

And when he had anointed his feet with the oil of the lamp that was burning in the holy place, he rose up immediately and walked, for his feet were completely healed, and he gave thanks to God and to the saints who pleased him.

At first the frog inflicted little pain on Theodora, for she herself was small; but when the frog grew up and became large, it caused such great pain that the woman had no rest day or night, because of her fierce pain. She cried loudly, threw herself to the ground, but no one could help her, and even no one could find out what disease she had; many thought that she was tormented by a demon.

Then they brought her to the two holy men, Cyrus and John, who came to her in the night and commanded her to drink a large quantity of water before she ate. She did so, and immediately her stomach was troubled, and she vomited out a large frog and was healed. All who saw it were amazed and praised God and His holy ones.

While he was praying with tears for his healing, the saints appeared to him in a vision and ordered him to eat an animal called a scorpion.

When Theodore awoke from his vision, he surrounded himself with the sign of the cross, thinking it was a demonic ghost; then he again began to pray to the saints, asking them to heal him.

And the third time the saints appeared to him, but this time he would not listen to them, thinking that it was a demonic delusion. Finally, on the fourth night the saints appeared to Theodoros no longer in a dream vision, but in the open; the saints expressed their sympathy to Theodoros and said to him: Why do you not believe our words? Arise quickly and go to our spring; there eat what you find edible; it will be an effective cure for you.

Feodor, believing in the truth of the apparitions of the saints, went at daybreak to the spring and found there a small cucumber lying on the ground; Feodor took it and tasted it with pleasure; and when he was about to put his last piece of cucumber in his mouth, he noticed in it the last part of an animal called a scorpion, for the animal he had already eaten almost all in the cucumber. Very frightened, he threw the rest of the cucumber on the ground, after which he began to vomit and

He threw up all the poison in it, along with the cucumber and the animal.

After this, Feodor felt quite healthy, and, coming to the church, he worshiped with gratitude for the honorable powers of his healers.

She brought with her an eight-year-old son, whose tongue had been taken out of his mouth by the cunning of a demon; the tongue of the lad was a foot long, was much more ordinary than human tongue, and had a very strange appearance: it was fat, black, smelly, unpleasant to all who looked at it, and always spewed black saliva.

And the child fell by chance at the tomb of the saints, and smote the marble that was there with his tongue; and immediately his tongue was loosed from the power of the devil, and it was restored to its proper place, and the boy was healed.

"Eugene, get up and go to your house in peace". Eugene got up, and immediately he was free from all the pain of his father and recovered his full health.

Miracles of your holy martyr, the wall of the unbreakable gift of Christ God, those prayers of the council of tongues destroy, the kingdom of the scepter strengthen, as one good and human-loving.