. Sacred and legendary art . ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren,ye have done it unto me. A quaint little picture, but veryexpressive. (Vatican.) 2. Pesellino. The two brothers minister to a sick man.(In the Louvre.) » They are sometimes surgeons as well as apothecaries, cut-ting off and replacing legs and arms; and sometimes they areletting blood. 3. It is related that a certain man, who was afflicted with acancer in his leg, went to perform his devotions in the Church ST. COSMO AND ST. DAMIAN 431 of St. Cosmo and St. Damian at Kome, and he prayed mostearnestly that these bene
. Sacred and legendary art . ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren,ye have done it unto me. A quaint little picture, but veryexpressive. (Vatican.) 2. Pesellino. The two brothers minister to a sick man.(In the Louvre.) » They are sometimes surgeons as well as apothecaries, cut-ting off and replacing legs and arms; and sometimes they areletting blood. 3. It is related that a certain man, who was afflicted with acancer in his leg, went to perform his devotions in the Church ST. COSMO AND ST. DAMIAN 431 of St. Cosmo and St. Damian at Kome, and he prayed mostearnestly that these beneficent samts would be pleased to aidhim. When he had prayed, a deep sleep fell upon he beheld St. Cosmo and St. Damian, who stood besidehim; and one carried a box of ointment, the other a sharpknife. And one said, What shall we do to replace thisdiseased leg when we have cut it off? and the other replied,^ There is a Moor who has been buried just now in SanPietro - in - Vincoli; let us take his leg for the MartjTdom of SS. Cosmo and Damian (Pesellino) Then they brought the leg of the dead man, and with it thejreplaced the leg of the sick man ; anointing it with celes-tial ointment, so that he remained whole. When he awokehe almost doubted whether it could be himself ; but his neigh-bors, seeing that he was healed, looked into the tomb of theMoor, and found that there had been an exchange of legs:and thus the truth of this great miracle was proved to allbeholders. (Legenda Aurea.) Of this story I have seen some grotesque example: The sick man is lying on a bed, and and St. Damian are busy affixing a black leg ; at a lit-tle distance on the ground lies the dead Moor, with a whiteleg lying beside him. 432 THE PATRON SAINTS OF CHRISTENDOM 4. In a scene of their martyrdom by Pesellino — a beauti-ful little picture — they are beheaded. They wear the redtunics and red caps usual in Florentine representations.(Florence.) About the ye
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