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A global originality awaits the visitor in the area that was formed as a “chapel” of Agios Stefanos, the patron saint of fever sufferers. It houses icons of 45 saintly doctors and 12 female doctors or healers, who founded hostels for patients in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, as well as saints who are considered patrons against certain diseases. Among the saints are the doctor Luke the Evangelist, Saint Asclepius, the 20 Saints Anargyros, Saints Hermione, Xena and Philomela, but also the doctor Basil the Great, who founded the “Basilica”, a 600-bed hospital and workhouse! in Caesarea, Cappadocia. The visitor can read troparia, megalograms or short stories referring to the saints depicted. The chapel also contains an icon of the young Saint Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea (1877-1961), professor of surgery at the University of Tashkent. Two large images stand out: of Christ, as the great Chief Physician, with 24 medical miracles depicted around him, and of Our Lady of Yatrissa, with 24 medical theotokos.
