Cosmas and Damian, SAINTS, Arabian brothers, who practised as physicians at Ægæa in Cilicia in the 3rd century A.D., and who were cast into the sea as Christians, but, according to the legend, rescued by an angel. Thereafter, burning and stoning having proved ineffectual, they were beheaded in 303. Their relics were translated from Bremen to Munich in 1649, and their names commemorated in the Canon of the Mass.
Cosmas and Damian
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 501
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