Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John

Miracula sanctorum Cyri et Ioannis (Collectio miraculorum, BHG 477-479) · Sophronius of Jerusalem (c. 560-638) · c. 610-620s (Sophronius wrote at Menouthis before becoming patriarch in 634) · hagiography

Greek · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo search 'Miracles of Cyrus and John Sophronius' returns nine records, none of them an English translation: a 1978 French dissertation ('Récit des miracles des saints Cyr et Jean: traduction et commentaire'), the 2006 French translation with Greek text, 'Miracles des saints Cyr et Jean (BHGI 477-479)' (Paris: De Boccard, 2006), and English-language studies/articles about the collection (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Miracles%20of%20Cyrus%20and%20John%20Sophronius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A narrower query adding 'English translation' returns only archival-manuscript records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Miracles%20of%20Saints%20Cyrus%20and%20John%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) contain no work of Sophronius of Jerusalem.

Seventy or so miracle narratives set at the shrine of Cyrus and John at Menouthis/Abu Qir near Alexandria; the largest surviving pre-iconoclast Greek miracle collection and a prime source for late antique healing cult, incubation, and everyday social history. Greek text with French translation: N. Fernandez Marcos, Los Thaumata de Sofronio (Madrid, 1975), and the 2006 De Boccard volume (BHG 477-479). No complete English translation located.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 3 candidate(s). Three witnesses: (a) Mai's 1840 editio princeps in the Spicilegium Romanum, public domain and complete, but with transliterated OCR — usable only after grc re-OCR (demonstrated on p. 405); (b) the 1975 Fernández Marcos edition, the best text (Greek + Spanish) but in copyright and uploaded without a licence, so mark restricted and do not harvest; (c) Migne PG 87/3 prints only the Laudatio, not the Thaumata. The 2006 De Boccard translation (BHG 477-479) was not found digitised.

Scan / witness	Format	Pages	Rights	OCR	Evidence
Spicilegium Romanum, Angelo Mai (1840): 'SS. MM. CYRI ET IOHANNIS LAUDES ET MIR… internet-archive · bub_gb_CubecxAg9_MC	pdf	810	public-domain	poor	HTTP 200 (25,221,623 bytes), pdfinfo 810 pp (454x682 pt, Google scan of Spicilegium Romanum tomus III); _djvu.txt 1,227,672 chars, 0 Greek codepoints — the OCR rendered Greek as Latin lookalikes ('afopHTOy' = ἀφορήτου,…
N. Fernández Marcos, Los Thaumata de Sofronio (Madrid 1975) — Greek text with S… internet-archive · fernandez-marcos-natalio-los-thaumata-de-sofronio	pdf	430	restricted	good	HTTP 200 (19,281,071 bytes), pdfinfo 430 pp; _djvu.txt 1,051,123 chars: 38.5% Greek codepoints, 620 continuous Greek runs ≥200 chars (the Greek text is printed in full), 13,942 of 61,182 Greek tokens are function words…
Patrologia Graeca tomus 87/3 — 'Laudatio SS. Cyri et Joannis, martyrum, ex edit… internet-archive · patrologia-volumes (file 087c.pdf)	pdf	712	public-domain	none	HTTP 200; 712 leaves per 087c_scandata.xml; table of contents (087c_hocr_searchtext.txt.gz line 73/97) lists 'ACCEDUNT S. SOPHRONII HIEROSOLYMITANI, JOANNIS MOSCHI ... SCRIPTA' and 'Laudatio SS. Cyri et Joannis, martyru…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Sophronius of Jerusalem "Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
Wealth and poverty in early church and society · 2008 · eng	"Wealth and poverty in early church and society." Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic ; Brookline, Mass. : Holy Cross Orthodox Press, c2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990114879390203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-sophronius-miracula-cyri-et-ioannis