Saints Grafting Leg of Ethiopian Moor onto White Christian
St. Cosmas and St. Damian, patron saints of medicine, grafting the leg of an Ethiopian gladiator onto a Christian bell-tower keeper. This painting is by the Spanish artist Jaime Huguet (c. 1448-1492). Cosmas and Damian were physician brothers who practiced in Aleppo (modern-day Syria). They were martyred in the 4th century AD. The most famous legend surrounding these saints concerns a bell-tower keeper with a gangrenous leg who prayed at the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Rome. In a miraculous operation, the man's leg was amputated and successfully replaced with the leg of an Ethiopian gladiator who had recently died. The subject became popular with artists
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Abnormal Aesthetic Aleppo Amputated Amputation Believer Cosmas Cosmetic Cure Damian Diseased Esthetic Ethiopian Gangrene Gangrenous Graft Gruesome Healed Healing Huguet Jaime Legendary Limb Martyr Miraculous Mixed Moor Moorish Operating Pathology Patron Reconstructive Surgeon Surgery Surgical Syrian Transplant
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