Monday, September 26, 2016: Feast Day of Cosmas and Damian

Cosmas and Damian Feast Day is Today

Quick Fact Sheet:

• Brothers
• Miracle medical workers - first to transplant a human limb onto another person
• Born in Arabia before Islam in the 3rd century
• Specifically lives at Egaea in Cilicia
• They were highly esteemed by the citizens of that area.
• The governor of Cilicia took, tortured and finally killed them for being Christian on September 26, 283.
• They are patron saints of pharmacists (or druggists).