Holy Unmercenaries
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Holy Unmercenaries is an epithet applied to a number of Christian
saints who did not accept payment for good deeds. These include healers or Christian physicians who, in conspicuous opposition to medical practice of the day, tended to the sick free of charge. It may refer to:
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saints who did not accept payment for good deeds. These include healers or Christian physicians who, in conspicuous opposition to medical practice of the day, tended to the sick free of charge. It may refer to:
- Zenaida and PhilonellaZenaida and PhilonellaSaints Zenaida and Philonella were traditionally the first Christian physicians after Luke the Evangelist, and the first "unmercenaries"...
(died ca. 100) - Saint Tryphon (died ca. 250)
- Martyr Thalelaeus the Unmercenary, at AnazarbusAnazarbusAnazarbus in Ancient Cilicia was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River and near its tributary the Sempas Su.A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis...
in Cilicia (died 284) - Saints Cosmas and DamianSaints Cosmas and DamianSaints Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers, physicians, and early Christian martyrs born in Cilicia, part of today's Turkey. They practiced their profession in the seaport of Ayas, Adana, then in the Roman province of Syria...
(died ca. 303) - Saint PantaleonSaint PantaleonSaint Pantaleon , counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 303 AD...
(died ca. 303), also called Saint Panteleimon - Saints Cyrus and JohnCyrus and JohnSaints Cyrus and John are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they healed the sick free of charge....
(died ca. 304) - Saint Sampson the Hospitable (died ca. 530)
- Luka Voyno-YasenetskyLuka Voyno-YasenetskyArchbishop Luka was a Russian outstanding surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church, and an archbishop of Simferopol and of the Crimea since May 1946...
(died 1961)