silverless

Updated: May 12, 2025

Cosma and Damian were Arabian doctors who were converted to Christianity, and belonged to the class called "silverless martyrs" that is, physicians who took no fee from those whom they cured, but only stipulated that they should believe in Christ the Great Physician. They occupied in Christian hagiology the same place as the ancient myth of Esculapius occupied in pagan mythology.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood