E04227: An anonymous author compiles the Miracles of Artemios, a collection of miracles (occurring between c. 582 and c. 668) effected by *Artemios (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01128) and his female assistant *Phebronia (martyr of Nisibis, S01588) at Artemios' cult and burial site within the church of *John the Baptist (S00020) in the Oxeia quarter of Constantinople. The miracles are mostly effected through incubation, and the majority of healings are of diseases of the male genitals and groin. Written in Greek in Constantinople, 582/668; assembled as a collection, 658/668. Overview entry

Miracles of Artemios (BHG 173)

Contents

Prologue
1. The saint heals the son of an archiatros, whose testicles are diseased. In a dream the son sees Artemios squeezing his testicles, and is cured.

2. The saint heals a man from ‘the Gulf’, suffering from foot pain and/or hernias. In a dream Artemios squeezes his testicles, and the man is cured.

3. The saint heals a man from Amastris living in Constantinople, with a boil on his testicles. He applies a wax-salve obtained at the shrine, and soon sees the saint pretending to lance his boil with a scalpel. He is cured.

4. A man from Africa visits Constantinople to dedicate a votive lamp for his son, who has a disease of the testicles. At that same moment, his son in Africa is cured.

5. The saint heals a Chian merchant suffering from a hernia. After three months of dedicating himself, he makes to sail away, but Artemios touches his testicles in a dream, and he is cured.

6. The saint heals a sailor who has a disease of the testicles, caused by an indwelling demon. He sees Artemios in a dream, who suspends him in the air and expels the demon.

7. The saint heals a young man who has suffered a hernia after betting to lift a heavy weight. He sees Artemios in a dream, who admonishes him for betting, and then treads on his stomach and heals him.

8. The saint heals a Phrygian with swollen testicles, who talks incessantly at the shrine. Artemios appears to him in a dream, heals him, and tells him to leave.

9. A Rhodian with a hernia spends some time at the shrine, but is then forced to return to Rhodes. Upon returning he has a vision of Artemios, and is cured.

10. A silver dealer’s son has a hernia, because of a demon. His mother brings him repeatedly to the shrine, and Artemios appears to her at home in a dream, and heals her son.

11. The saint heals an infant suffering from a hernia. The child’s mother dedicates a votive lamp in a bathhouse where she lives, sees the saint in a dream, and wakes to find the infant cured.

12. The saint heals a boy suffering from a hernia. His mother goes to a church of the Virgin, but she appears and advises her to go to the shrine of the saint, where Artemios appears in a dream and heals the boy.

13. An old man suffering from a disease of the testicles withdraws from the saint’s shrine and falls asleep en route home. In a dream the saint pricks his testicles. He returns to the shrine and is healed.

14. The saint heals a sailor with a disease of the testicles, who withdraws from the shrine, but Artemios then appears on board the patient’s ship, treads on his testicles, and cures him.

15. A sceptic, Narses, is struck with a swelling of the testicles, but comes to the shrine, and has a dream in which the saint slays a dove against his testicles. He is cured.

16. The saint heals an Alexandrian with a hernia. In a dream Artemios gives the patient a gold coin, which upon waking he discovers to be a wax salve. He is cured.

17. In the reign of Heraclius, an Alexandrian actor accompanies the herniated relative of a patrikios to the shrine of Artemios. The saint heals the patient but briefly punishes the acrobat with a hernia.

18. In the reign of Heraclius, the clothes of a devotee of the saint are stolen. The saint reveals the identity of the thief, but at a subsequent trial the victim fulfils his oath not to do the perpetrator harm.

19. The saint heals a chartoularios who has injured his hip, using oil from the shrine’s lamps. The saint protects him from a further fall.

20. The saint heals the same chartoularios (cf. Mir. 19) of sores on his penis, at which doctors have despaired, with the use of salt and vinegar.

21. In the period c.640-643/4, a deacon of Hagia Sophia and poietes of the Blue Faction relates how, after a failed surgery on his testicles, he applies some of the saint’s oil, and is soon cured.

22. A man (the subject also of Mir. 18) is suffering with diseases, and is admitted to hospital where he develops a severe hernia. The saint appears in a dream and pierces his testicles, and then instructs a physician’s assistant in how to care for him.

23. In the reign of Constans II, the saint heals a priest of his own church, whom doctors have failed.

24. A girl is cured of a hernia, after Artemios advises her mother to supplicate Phebronia. A sermonette attacks Hippocratic doctors.

25. The saint heals a man with a disease of the testicles, whom doctors have failed. Artemios appears as a butcher in a dream, opens him up, and rearranges his intestines. A sermonette attacks surgeons.

26. The saint heals a man suffering from a hernia. Three times he advises him to seek a cure with the blacksmith, where a miraculous cure occurs. A sermonette attacks Hippocratic doctors.

27. The saint in a dream heals a shipbuilder with swollen testicles while the patient is near Gaul. A sermonette attacks secular doctors.

28. The saint heals a boy with an intestinal hernia. A sermonette attacks secular doctors and sceptics.

29. The saint heals a bowmaker with a hernia. Artemios appears in a dream during the all-night vigil, and the patient is healed. A sermonette attacks surgeons.

30. The saint heals a tanner, and four other men, with a hernia. A sermonette attacks secular doctors.

31. The saint, in a dream, heals the son of a noblewoman from a disease of the testicles. The concluding sentences attack secular doctors.

32. In the reign of Maurice, an Alexandrian suffers a hernia. After a friend recounts his own healing, the man visits the shrine and is healed. A sermonette attacks Jews, heretics, pagans, Buddhists, and Manichaeans.

33. The saint heals both a boy from a hernia and a friend of his father from a diseased chest. Artemios appears in a dream to the friend, and both patients are healed with a wax-salve.

34. In the reign of Heraclius, Artemios heals a girl dead from plague. In a vision, she sees him intervening with angels, and later identifies him with one of his images. A sermonette celebrates the saint's miracles.

35. The saint heals a Rhodian shipowner with a hernia who has spent two years at the shrine.

36. The saint heals the son of a woman from a hernia, when she cannot afford a secular doctor. They visit the shrine and Artemios appears in a dream to heal the boy, who becomes a monk of the Pege.

37. The saint heals two monks of the Pege Monastery (cf. Mir. 36) from hernias, one of whom he has punished with such for his scepticism.

38. In a dream, the saint heals a boy and devotee of Artemios, George, from a hernia. A sermonette attacks the Jews.

39. During the patriarchate of Sergius (610-638), the saint heals the same George (cf. Mir. 38), now a priest on Plateia, from disease.

40. While a deacon on Plateia, the same George (cf. Mir. 38-39) falls ill with a hernia. The saint cures him in a dream.

41. In the reign of Constans II, the saint heals a man with a hernia through a dream. A sermonette attacks trinitarian heretics.

42. Through a dream, the saint heals a woman’s son from a disease of the testicles.

43. Through a dream, the saint heals a woman’s son from a disease of the testicles.

44. The saint heals a coppersmith at home through a dream. A short sermonette celebrates Artemios’ powers.

45. The saint heals a woman’s son, suffering from a disease of the testicles. Phebronia appears to the woman in a dream, and heals the boy.