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Corfu.
In the context of the present study, the two miraculous interventions of the Saint are examined, with which he saved Corfu from
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studies makes the quality of the evidence weak and further trials
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that blend seamlessly with the natural dentition while also withstanding posterior occlusal forces. A tooth more complex restoration is required after endodontic treatment when compared to normal tooth restoration, because of factors such as extensive caries,
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of the patient.One such design proposed by Dr.Ronald E Goldstein
is “Veenerlay”or “Vonlay”. Vonlay is a blend of an onlay with an
extended buccal veneer surface for use in premolar region, where
there is sufficient enamel present to bond. This restorative option
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of the convoys of the Venetian commercial and military fleet, that
brought many times incidences of plague, from the ports to which
it parked [2].
3. Short Life and miracles of Saint Spyridon
As reported in a rare manuscript of the 18th
century AD, written in
byzantine lower case writing, including the service, life and mir-
acles of the saint, Saint Spyridon was born in Cyprus and lived in
the years of Constantine the Great and his successors. He was, as
mentioned by the writer of his legendary, “simple in his manners,
humble in the heart and became from the beginning Shepherd of
lambs”, following to the model of Christ, who is characterised by
the Christian Theology as the “Good Shepherd”. The miracles he
performed were so many, and he was so beloved by the people,
that he very soon rose on the higher religious echelons as Bish-
op of Tremithus, Cyprus. His miracles include treatments of blind
people, resurrections of dead people, of his daughter Irene and of
the son of the grieving widow, etc. The most important and most
known miracle of his, which has also affected how he is illustrated
in the icons, is the Miracle during the First Ecumenical council of
Nicaea in 325 AD, in which he participated defeating Arius and his
monophysite opinions [3, 4].
This is the well-known miracle with the clay tile, which he used to
prove the consubstantiality and indivisibility of the Holy Trinity,
comparing it with the clay tile and its components. Holding the
clay tile in his hand, he transformed it in its three components,
the fire, the water and the soil, defeating the heretic opinions of
Arius, asseverating the ternary nature of God, “and stunned those
who were high-minded in words in the Council of Nicaea with the
power of the Holy Spirit” [5].
The writer of his legendary says the following for the miracle of
the Council of Nicaea: “the saint …. after taking a clay tile in his
left hand, held it tight and miraculously fire sprang from it ris-
ing in the air, water flowed pouring to the ground, while the clay
remained in his hands and the others, watching this, were stupe-
fied”; afterwards, Arius apologised from the saint for his heretic
opinions; “the orthodoxes won, while the Arius's supporters were
defeated and almost everyone returned to the orthodox faith” [6].
Another less known miracle performed by the Saint, pertaining to
the interest of the History of Medicine, is the miraculous therapy of
the successor of Constantine the Great, emperor Constantius, the
illness of whom has still not sufficiently been determined. “And
he has relieved king Constantius from the suffering that he expe-
rienced”; this is reported by the writer of the Saint’s legendary,
without providing more details regarding the disease from which
the King suffered. However, during the study of another manu-
script, written in byzantine lower case writing, printed in Venice
as well, on the 18th
century AD, a reference is made on a leprosy
skin disease that the saint treated from a king, who was apparently
Constantius: “you shall be glad since you emitted the king’s lepro-
sy skin disease” and “you shall be glad for being the saver from
the leprotic amaurosis” [7].
We will deal in more detail with the treatment of King Constantius
by Saint Spyridon in a future study; King Constantius, in order to
thank the Saint for his treatment, has established the “nontaxable”
of the church; “has established the church taxes as unethical” be-
cause he believed that it is absurd the earthly kings to get taxes
from “the servants of the king of the skies”.
This incidence is mentioned in the first troparion sang in the Little
Evensong and more precisely: “you relieved Constantius, the King
who was possessed by the disease and death and persuaded him
with advice to offer well, always observing, to all the Priests in
order to always worship God” [8].
4. The Saint’s Relation with Corfu and The Story of the Trans-
fer of His Relic in The Island
The saint’s holy relic has ended in Corfu in 1456 AD, three years
after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, where it was first
kept. According to the dominant version, in 1453 AD, when the
Fell of Constantinople took place, among the Greeks that escaped
Constantinople was also Georgios Kaloheretis, who owned the
Holy Relic of Saint Theodora, Empress and spouse of Theophilus
the Iconoclast, as well as the Relic of Saint Spyridon [9].
And in order to save them, he had put them into sacks full with
hay, explaining to everyone who asked about their content, that
they carried food for the animals. He firstly settled in Paramythia
opposite Corfu and later on the island, which was under Venetian
and not Ottoman control. He married there and had three sons, as
the historian of Corfu Andreas Marmoras says, Markos, Loukas
and Filippos, who inherited, after his decease, the holy relics. The
firstborn son inherited the relic of Saint Theodora the Queen and
the two others the relic of Saint Spyridon. In a trial that took place
when the two brothers tried to get the Saint’s relic outside Corfu,
the judgement was that they have the absolute right of possession
over the holy relic. However, a few year later, the Saint’s relic was
taken into the ownership of the Corfiot Stamatellos Voulgaris, who
was married to the daughter of Filippos Kaloheretis. Moreover,
Voulgaris built the first church devoted to Saint Spyridon, where
he placed the holy relic for pilgrimage. But after this church was
destroyed of natural causes, a big church was built in the city de-
voted to the Saint; this church exists till nowadays [10,11].
However, according to another version, the dean Grigorios Poly-
euk(t)os, was the one to save the holy relics of Saint Spyridon and
Queen Theodora from the rage of the Turkish conquerors in 1453
AD, settled firstly in Paramythia in Epirus and then transferred
them in Corfu in 1456 AD, when he placed them in the church
of Saint Athanasios. Towards the end of his life, not having other
trustworthy friend to pass them to, he bestowed them to Georgios
Kaloheretis from Constantinople, who then passed them to his
heirs, as mentioned above in the other version [12].
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5. The Two Cases of Miraculous Salvation of Corfu from
Plague, by Saint Spyridon
The holy relic of Saint Spyridon is firmly connected not only with
the ecclesiastic history but also with the life and history of Corfu in
general, focusing on his beauteous church, which is the mark and
the centre of worship of the Saint in the old city of Corfu. In many
cases, the living Saint of orthodoxy, as called by the writers of his
legendary, has listened to the prayers and pleadings of the Corfiot
people, saving them from any type of threats, either from hostile
raids or from epidemics, as the two cases which we will study [13].
This is captured in the way the saint’s relic is many times illustrat-
ed, in churches or portable icons kept in museums; in the sides of
the icons, scenes from the miracles the Saint performed in Corfu
can be found [14].
In memory of those beneficences of the Saint to the faithful Corfiot
people, a litany takes place four times a year in the city of Corfu;
two of those litanies, i.e. the one taking place the first Sunday of
November and the one taking place on Palm Sunday, are due to the
salvation of the island by the saint from an epidemic of plague [15]
As reported by the Corfiot historian Andreas Marmoras, the testi-
mony of whom is very important as he is contemporaneous to the
era we describe, the night of Christmas of 1629 AD, four instances
of plague took place in the city of Corfu. Right away, the health au-
thorities of the island started investigations to discover the source
of the illness; the fear of the disease was so big, that it was de-
scribed as “thanatiko” (something that causes death). Marmoras
calls it “deadly plague and taint” saying that the disaster caused to
the island was so big; he markedly said “it caused irreversible des-
olation and disaster”. The investigations showed that the source
of the illness was the following: one of the servants of a Corfiot
peer, notable resident and prominent lawyer of the island, Odigitri-
anos Sarantaris, who was also one of the health proveditors of the
island, bought from a turkish ship anchored in the port of the city
two ornate turkish wool handkerchiefs; “the said handkerchiefs
were artfully embroidered”, which he gifted to his mistress. Sa-
rantaris’ spouse then gave them to her daughter to keep them in a
chest, when she suddenly felt malaise and immediately died. The
relatives and friends of the noble Sarantaris, especially the women,
who visited his home in order to stand by him in his grief, became
the first carriers of the disease, that they quickly transmitted to
the whole island. The people then, with prayers and pleading in
the Saint’s church, asked for his help in order to survive the lethal
disease, the victims of which were already sixty. The miraculous
Saint Spyridon listened to the residents’ prayers, the incidences
started to retrogress and they totally disappeared on Palm Sunday
of 1630 AD. According to many testimonies, during the whole pe-
riod when the saint tried to defeat the plague spread in the city of
Corfu, the people saw a light of unidentified origin, that was on all
night long in the bell tower of the church and it was visible by the
guards of the castle; “in his church, a vigil light in the form of a
lamp was continuously shining; a light which was observed during
all the night by the guards of the forts”. Thus, it was decided via
a decree of the local authority of June 21, 1630 AD, i.e. a decree
by the Assignees, to realise, every year on the Palm Sunday, a lit-
any of the Saint’s relic, the so called Palm-bearing Litany, while
a fundraising collected a hundred and five thousand ducats for the
beautification of the Saint’s church [16-18].
The second case the Saint saved Corfu from an epidemic of plague
was in 1673 AD; this is the reason of the litany of the Saint’s relic
on the first Sunday of November, which is the fourth and last litany
of the saint, known as litany of “Protokyriako”. This litany was
established, like the aforementioned, by decision of the Venetian
Command on October 29, 1673 AD. As mentioned in the legend-
aries of the Saint, in 1673 AD, Corfu suffered again from severe
plague, “the infectious disease has again raid over fields, city and
towns, thus…. death threatened to vanish the whole island” and
there was serious danger that all the population of the island died.
But once more, Saint Spyridon saved his island; the testimonies
of that era mention that “the miraculous Spyridon treated the dis-
ease and made at once all the people suffering from it recover and
heal”, with the disease suddenly vanishing in the end of October,
thanks to the Saint’s intervention [19, 20].
The popular imagination, fed by a zealous faith, reports that the
residents of Corfu watched the Saint holding the Cross and repel-
ling the plague away from his city [21] (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Icon from the “Ourania” of Saint Spyridon, by Panagiotis
Doxaras: the saint hunts with the Cross the plague, illustrated as a demon
flying above the city of Corfu, spreading death to the entire city.
This scene is illustrated in one of the seventeen parts of the well
known “ourania”, illustrated by Panagiotis Doxaras, as people call
the dome of the church of Saint Spyridon in the city of Corfu. Pa-
nagiotis Doxaras was one of the most important representatives of
the Eptanesian architecture, was born in Koutifari in Mani in 1662
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AD., illustrated the “ourania” (the ceiling is called thus) of Saint
Spyridon in Corfu in 1727 AD. This includes seventeen parts, with
thirteen scenes from the Saint’s life and miracles, and in its four
angles the Evangelists are depicted [22,23].
While studying the Life and Miracles of Saint Spyridon, one can
find out the timeless offer and intervention of the saint to the res-
idents of the island, a fact that explains the timeless relation of
worship and faith of the residents to their patron saint. This special
relation is ascertained while studying the texts and testimonies of
the historians of Corfu, and is mainly ascertained even nowadays,
with one visit to the island, where one can be witness of the man-
ifestation of love and worship to the Saint’s relic, which is kept in
the church carrying his name in the centre of the old city.
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