Cyril quite frankly explained the purpose of this act: in Menuthis and the nearby town of Canopus even Christians, when they got ill, tended to consult the dream oracles at the shrines of the Egyptian gods Sarapis and Isis medica. The occasion was the translation of the relics of the two saints Abbakyros and John from Alexandria to the Church of the Evangelists at Menuthis. N 27 June 414 Bishop Cyril of Alexandria addressed a crowd gathering in the Church of the Apostles at Canopus in Egypt. The Chapel of Physicians at Santa Maria Antiqua* DAVID KNIPP Issue year 2002 © 2003 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University Washington, D.C. 56 Editor: Alice-Mary Talbot Published byĭumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington, D.C.
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