ON SAINT GEORGE THEOPHORUS AND THAUMATURGUS, AMONG THE GREEKS.
CommentaryGeorge Theophorus and Thaumaturgus, among the Greeks (Saint)
The Acts and miracles of this Saint lie hidden, which earned him two glorious surnames. We gave on the first of February the Life and martyrdom of Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, who is said in the Greek Acts to have been both in name and in reality a Theophorus. He also, when the Emperor Trajan inquired why he was called Theophorus, responded that he is a Theophorus who carries Christ in his soul, or according to the Latin Acts, who has Christ in his breast. For this reason, therefore, we judge that this Saint George was surnamed Theophorus. The other term, Thaumaturgus, is commonly given to Saints on account of the frequent miracles which were performed at their relics, as is more than clear from this work of ours. Concerning this Saint, however, only the following is read in the great printed Menaea: "On the same day, of our holy Father George, Theophorus and Thaumaturgus, who is called Neophanes in Hiptius." The same is read in the Lives of the Saints by Maximus, Bishop of Cythera. For the rest, where Hiptius, or Hiption, may be, we do not know.