Five handmade Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox prayer cards for general physical healing — spanning seventeen centuries, five traditions, and three continents, including two saints who are almost entirely unknown outside their own communities.
Each card features a full-color icon on the front. On the back: a short historical biography of the saint — who they were, what healings are associated with them, and why the faithful pray to them — followed by a prayer addressed directly to that saint for physical healing and restored health. Cards are standard holy card size (2.5" × 4.25"), printed on quality card stock, and made by hand in Austin, Texas.
The five saints in this bundle:
Saints Cosmas and Damian — Eastern Orthodox. Twin physician brothers of the third century who practiced medicine without accepting payment, calling upon Christ as the true source of all healing. Patron saints of physicians and surgeons for seventeen centuries, venerated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians worldwide. Their icon hangs in hospitals and operating rooms from Greece to Russia to Lebanon.
Saint Hermione of Ephesus — Eastern Orthodox. Daughter of Philip the Evangelist — the Philip of Acts 8 and Acts 21:8–9 — who became a physician in second-century Ephesus, healed the sick without charge, and was martyred under the Emperor Hadrian. One of the earliest female physician-saints in Christian history, venerated widely in the Orthodox world and almost entirely unknown in the West.
Saint John of Kronstadt — Eastern Orthodox. The most celebrated healing pastor in modern Orthodox history. A 19th century Russian priest who visited the sick, prayed over them, and documented healings followed — thousands of accounts from contemporaries including physicians who could not explain what they witnessed. He healed through prayer and the Eucharist, insisting that the sacraments were themselves medicine.
Saint John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco — Eastern Orthodox. A 20th century bishop found incorrupt after death, canonized in 1994. Sleepless in prayer throughout his life, his healings were documented during his lifetime and multiplied at his tomb. His relics are enshrined in San Francisco, California — making him one of the very few canonized Orthodox saints with a primary healing shrine in the United States.
Saint Gregorios of Parumala — Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The first person from India to be canonized in the Oriental Orthodox tradition. A bishop of the ancient Thomas Christian community of Kerala — whose origins trace to the apostle Thomas's first-century mission to India — whose shrine at Parumala receives hundreds of thousands of healing pilgrims annually. Venerated by millions in South India and virtually unknown everywhere else.
This bundle is for those who want to pray for physical healing without a specific diagnosis category, for those whose condition doesn't fit neatly into one illness, and for those who simply want to be introduced to the breadth of the Eastern Christian healing tradition — which is far larger, far older, and far more active than most Western Christians realize.
Five handmade Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox prayer cards for general physical healing — spanning seventeen centuries, five traditions, and three continents, including two saints who are almost entirely unknown outside their own communities.
Each card features a full-color icon on the front. On the back: a short historical biography of the saint — who they were, what healings are associated with them, and why the faithful pray to them — followed by a prayer addressed directly to that saint for physical healing and restored health. Cards are standard holy card size (2.5" × 4.25"), printed on quality card stock, and made by hand in Austin, Texas.
The five saints in this bundle:
Saints Cosmas and Damian — Eastern Orthodox. Twin physician brothers of the third century who practiced medicine without accepting payment, calling upon Christ as the true source of all healing. Patron saints of physicians and surgeons for seventeen centuries, venerated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians worldwide. Their icon hangs in hospitals and operating rooms from Greece to Russia to Lebanon.
Saint Hermione of Ephesus — Eastern Orthodox. Daughter of Philip the Evangelist — the Philip of Acts 8 and Acts 21:8–9 — who became a physician in second-century Ephesus, healed the sick without charge, and was martyred under the Emperor Hadrian. One of the earliest female physician-saints in Christian history, venerated widely in the Orthodox world and almost entirely unknown in the West.
Saint John of Kronstadt — Eastern Orthodox. The most celebrated healing pastor in modern Orthodox history. A 19th century Russian priest who visited the sick, prayed over them, and documented healings followed — thousands of accounts from contemporaries including physicians who could not explain what they witnessed. He healed through prayer and the Eucharist, insisting that the sacraments were themselves medicine.
Saint John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco — Eastern Orthodox. A 20th century bishop found incorrupt after death, canonized in 1994. Sleepless in prayer throughout his life, his healings were documented during his lifetime and multiplied at his tomb. His relics are enshrined in San Francisco, California — making him one of the very few canonized Orthodox saints with a primary healing shrine in the United States.
Saint Gregorios of Parumala — Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The first person from India to be canonized in the Oriental Orthodox tradition. A bishop of the ancient Thomas Christian community of Kerala — whose origins trace to the apostle Thomas's first-century mission to India — whose shrine at Parumala receives hundreds of thousands of healing pilgrims annually. Venerated by millions in South India and virtually unknown everywhere else.
This bundle is for those who want to pray for physical healing without a specific diagnosis category, for those whose condition doesn't fit neatly into one illness, and for those who simply want to be introduced to the breadth of the Eastern Christian healing tradition — which is far larger, far older, and far more active than most Western Christians realize.
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