E05763: The Miracles of Saint Thekla recounts how *Thekla (follower of the Apostle Paul, S00092) healed a pagan sophist Isokasios from an illness in her church in Aigai in Cilicia. Written in Greek at Seleucia ad Calycadnum (southern Asia Minor) in the 470s.

Miracles of Saint Thekla, 39

There was a certain grammarian Isokasios. Although he was a non-believer, he received a miracle from the martyr, but remained nonetheless a non-believer.

[Ὁ Ἰσοκάσιος] ἐν Αἰγαῖς ταύταις ταῖς Κιλίκων ἀρρωστήσας ποτέ, εἶτα καὶ ἠρεμίας πολλῆς καὶ βαθείας ὡς ἄρρωστος ἐπιθυμήσας, ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῆς μάρτυρος, μικρὸν ἀπωτέρω τῆς πόλεως ὄντι, κατάγεται, ὡς ἂν ἐκεῖ μάλιστα τούτου τευξόμενος. Ἠρεμίας οὖν πολλῆς τυχών, καὶ μικρὸν καταδαρθών, μετὰ τῆς ἠρεμίας τυγχάνει καὶ σωτηρίας, ἀκούσας τε ἃ δεῖ ποιῆσαι παρὰ τῆς μάρτυρος καὶ ποιήσας, καὶ ἀπαλλαγεὶς τοῦ νοσήματος, ὅτε καὶ τῆς ἀπιστίας προσονειδίσασα αὐτῷ τῆς βοηθείας οὐκ ἐφθόνησεν.

Οὕτω γάρ πως ἡμῖν ὁ θαυμαστὸς Εὐδόκιος ἀπήγγειλε καὶ διηγήσατο, ἀνὴρ καὶ λαμπρὸς καὶ περίσημος καὶ ἀληθείας μηδὲν μᾶλλον πρεσβεύων, Ταρσοὺς δὲ τὴν καλλίστην ταύτην πόλιν οἰκῶν καὶ κοσμῶν.


'One day, he fell ill in Cilician Aigai, and being sick he desired to rest in a very tranquil and quiet place, so he took himself to the church of the martyr, which was a little distance outside the city, hoping that there he might find exactly what he was looking for. Indeed he did find tranquility there, and in short order he fell asleep, and together with the tranquility he also found deliverance from his illness. Once he had heard and accomplished what the martyr said he needed to do, he was delivered from the malady. The martyr did not begrudge her assistance, even though she did castigate him for his unbelief.

This is what the admirable Eudokios reported and told me, a splendid and renowned man who respects nothing as much as the truth, and who is both a citizen an an adornment for the very beautiful city of Tarsus.'

Text: Dagron 1978. Translation: Johnson 2012. Summary: J. Doroszewska.