Cosmas and Damian

A year ago, the Chairman of the Committee for the Feast of Cosmas and Damian, on behalf of all the members, wanted to entrust me with the task of drafting a study on our saints that would embrace many aspects of their earthly and heavenly lives. Immense is the relevant bibliography and most of the written works are studies of profound French and German researchers. I believed to give a different cut from my previous works on the saints very dear to me, moving from the first medicine to the one known by the two protagonists and I deepened some themes related to their sanctification. In the various chapters, by means of a comparative study, I thought I was inserting reliable information to satisfy the reader’s curiosity, such as the desire to recognize our saints in international iconography through external signs. I gave importance to the many known miracles and to those that occurred in Alberobello, abundant in every age. Cosmas and Damian work daily, in every part of the world, and are pleased to fulfill the requests of those who want to save their body and preserve their soul.