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Religious C1800 Italian SAINTS COSMOS DAMIAN Enamel Medal PINK Rhinestone HORSESHOE NECKLACE Pendant STERLING Silver CROSS-n-hrsshoe

Religious C1800 Italian SAINTS COSMOS DAMIAN Enamel Medal PINK Rhinestone HORSESHOE NECKLACE Pendant STERLING Silver CROSS-n-hrsshoe
Religious C1800 Italian SAINTS COSMOS DAMIAN Enamel Medal PINK Rhinestone HORSESHOE NECKLACE Pendant STERLING Silver CROSS-n-hrsshoe
A wonderful C1800 Enamel Religious Saints Cosmos and Damian medal from Italy captured on Sterling Silver Filigree nested within a Pink Rhinestone Horseshoe on Etched Silverplated chain.
 
I added Two Swarovski Crystals and a Sterling Silver Cross on the ornate Sterling toggle.
 
This piece can be worn long, or as a doubled choker, like having TWO pieces in one!
 

 

Necklace measures 34" long, pendant is  1.5" W by 1.25" tall.
 
Lynn Konrad
 
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History of Saints Cosmas and Damian
 
(Greek: Κοσμάς και Δαμιανός) (also written Kosmas and Damianos) (died ca. 287) were twins and early Christian martyrs born in Arabia who practised the art of healing in the seaport of Aegea (modern Ayas) in the Gulf of İskenderun, then in the Roman province of Syria. They accepted no payment for their services, which led them to be nicknamed anargyroi (The Silverless); it is said that by this, they led many to the Christian faith.[1][edit] Lives
Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplant the black leg of the Ethiopian onto the white body of the patient.

During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant. However, according to legend they stayed true to their faith, enduring being hung on a cross, stoned and shot by arrows and finally suffered execution by beheading. Anthimus, Leontius and Euprepius, their younger brothers, who were inseparable from them throughout life, shared in their martyrdom.

Their most famous miraculous exploit was the grafting of a leg from a recently deceased Ethiopian to replace a patient's ulcered leg, and was the subject of many paintings and illuminations.

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