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John, Sampson and Diomedes (six), Florus and Laurus and Hermolaus. holy Andronicus with holy Athanasia, holy confessors from the city of Edessa, Gurias, Samonas and Abibus, who snatched the maiden from the tomb and led her back to her homeland. holy Acindynus, come quickly, holy Aphthonius, overshadow, holy Elpidiphorus, raise up, holy Anempodistus, do not overlook, holy 325 unmercenaries, come quickly, holy Panteleimon, chief physician, overshadow, holy Cyrus and John, come quickly, holy Agapetus from Synaus, holy John the Theologian, holy Peter from Rome, holy Paul from Damascus, holy Euthymius from Madytus, holy Nicholas from Myra, holy Basil from Caesarea, holy Epiphanius from Cyprus, holy John Chrysostom, holy Thyrsus, Leucius and Philemon, holy Alypius and Procopius, holy Lady Theotokos from Athens, holy Anastasia the deliverer from potions, holy Barbara from Patras, holy Marina who trampled the demon, holy protomartyr Theophano from Constantinople, holy Catherine from Alexandria, holy John, prophet and Forerunner and Baptist of Christ, holy prophets, apostles, martyrs, holy ones and righteous ones, all the heavenly powers of the holy angels and archangels, principalities, authorities and the many-eyed cherubim and the six-winged seraphim, the incomprehensible power of the precious and life-giving cross, fall down, entreat the only supremely good God that you may grant to the servant of God Maria health and salvation and remission of the evils that possess her and drive away this grievous sickness from the servant of God Maria: fever, internal fever, powerful shivering, short shivering, destructive shivering, a harmful disease, a grievous disease, a terrible disease that comes upon, sent and man-made. I exorcise you, the 72 sicknesses which man has, to depart from the servant of God Maria, whether the sickness came down from heaven or from the stars or from the sun or moon, whether from a dark cloud, whether from cold air, whether it came down from thunder or from lightning, whether from earthquake or a crash and coincidences, whether from mountains, valleys or a ravine or hillsides, whether from a hill or a plain or fields, whether from a stone or water or a spring or a road or a river or a place or a field or an orchard, whether in a garden or in a park, whether at crossroads of two or three ways, whether at entrances or at exits, whether in the courtyard of a bath or an oven or a mill-race, whether at a door or at a window or in an upper story or a lower story or a courtyard or a threshing-floor, and you came to tempt the servant of God. Whether some enchanter worked this with envy or contrived it, or from a potion or envy or jealousy, whether from heavy 326 shameful eyes, whether from the evil eye and every other coming misfortune, whether burning or bubonic or sent or of the head or of the hands, heart and feet or a demonic phantom or a kalis of the mountains, whether of the onoskelis or of nymphs, whether of those flying in the dark air, and you came to harm the servant of God. Whether a headache or eye-pain or toothache or chest-pain or mind-pain or hand-pain. Whether painful urination or frequent urination or retention or expulsion or of the womb or colic or joint-pain or umbilical pain or sleeplessness or excessive sleep. I exorcise you, whatever it is that is harming the servant of God; depart and go away to the wild mountains wherever you are lying and harming the servant of God. depart and go away to the wild mountains not in the hairs of the head, not in the marrow of the skull, not in the cranium or half-cranium, not in the forehead or temples or eyelids or mind, not in the nostrils or ears, not in the mouth or molars or lips or teeth, not in the neck or shoulder-blades of the hands, not in the chest or inflammations or heart and every humor, not in the spine, buttocks or navel and lower abdomen, not in the knees of the feet or ankles or fingers/toes and nails wherever it is lying and harming and lurking in her, depart and go away to the heads of those who made it and sent it and of those complicit, whether a stranger made it or one of her own, or a traitor or a slave or a free person, whether

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Ἰωάννη, Σαμψὼν καὶ ∆ιομήδους (σιξ), Φλόρε καὶ Λαῦρε καὶ Ἑρμόλαε. ἅγιε Ἀνδρόνικε σὺν τῇ ἁγίᾳ Ἀθανασίᾳ, ἅγιοι ὁμολογῆται ἀπὸ Ἐδέσσαν τὴν πόλιν, Γούρια, Σαμωνᾶ καὶ Ἄβιβε, οἱ τὴν κόρην ἐκ τοῦ τάφου ἁρπάσαντες καὶ πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα αὐτῆς ἀπαγαγόντες. ἅγιε Ἀκίνδυνε πρόφθασον, ἅγιε Ἀφθόνιε ἐπισκίασον, ἅγιε Ἐλπιδιφόρε ἀνάστησον, ἅγιε Ἀνεμπόδιστε μὴ παρίδῃς, ἅγιοι 325 ἀνάργυροι προφθάσατε, ἅγιε Παντελεήμων ἀρχιατρὲ ἐπισκίασον, ἅγιοι Κύρε καὶ Ἰωάννη προφθάσατε, ἅγιε Ἀγαπητὲ ἀπὸ Συναώ, ἅγιε Ἰωάννη Θεολόγε, ἅγιε Πέτρε ἀπὸ Ῥώμην, ἅγιε Παῦλε ἀπὸ ∆αμασκόν, ἅγιε Εὐθύμιε ἀπὸ Μάδητον, ἅγιε Νικόλαε ἐκ τὰ Μύρα, ἅγιε Βασίλειε ἀπὸ Καισαρίαν, ἅγιε Ἐπιφάνιε ἀπὸ Κύπρον, ἅγιε Ἰωάννη Χρυσόστομε, ἅγιε Θύρσε, Λεύκιε καὶ Φιλήμων, ἅγιε Ἀλύπιε καὶ Προκόπιε, ἁγία δέσποινα Θεοτόκε ἀπὸ Ἀθήνας, ἁγία Ἀναστασία φαρμακολύτρια, ἁγία Βαρβάρα ἀπὸ Πάτρας, ἁγία Μαρίνα ἡ τὸν δαίμονα πατήσασα, ἁγία πρωτομάρτυς Θεοφανοῦ ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινούπολιν, ἁγία Αἰκατερίνα ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείαν, ἅγιε Ἰωάννη προφῆτα καὶ Πρόδρομε καὶ Βαπτιστὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἅγιοι προφῆται, ἀπόστολοι, μάρτυρες, ὅσιοι καὶ δίκαιοι, πᾶσαι αἱ οὐρανίαι δυνάμεις τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων καὶ ἀρχαγγέλων, ἀρχαί, ἐξουσίαι καὶ τὰ πολυόμματα χερουβὶμ καὶ τὰ ἑξαπτέρυγα σεραφίμ, ἡ ἀκατάληπτος δύναμις τοῦ τιμίου καὶ ζωοποιοῦ σταυροῦ, προσπέσατε, δυσωπήσατε τὸν μόνον ὑπεράγαθον θεὸν ὅπως δωρήσητε τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ Μαρίαν ὑγείαν καὶ σωτηρίαν καὶ ἄφεσιν τῶν συνεχομένων κακῶν καὶ ἀπελάσατε ταύτην τὴν χαλεπὴν ἀσθένειαν ἀπὸ τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ Μαρίαν· πυρετόν, ἐσωπύρετον, ῥίγους κραταιοῦ, ῥίγους βραχέος, ῥίγους λυμαντικοῦ, νόσος βλαβερά, νόσος χαλεπή, νόσος δεινὴ προσγινομένη, ἐπιπεμπτικὴ καὶ πεποιημένη. ἐξορκίζω ὑμᾶς τὰς οβʹ ἀσθενείας, ἃς ἔχει ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἀναχωρεῖν ἀπὸ τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ Μαρίαν, μὴ ἀπὸ οὐρανοῦ κατῆλθεν ἡ ἀσθένεια ἢ ἀπὸ ἀστέρων ἢ ἀπὸ ἡλίου ἢ σελήνης, μὴ ἀπὸ ζώφου νεφέλης, μὴ ἀπὸ κρυεροῦ ἀέρος, μὴ ἀπὸ βροντῆς ἢ ἀπὸ ἀστραπῆς κατῆλθε, μὴ ἀπὸ σεισμοῦ ἢ κτύπου καὶ συμπτωμάτων, μὴ ἀπὸ ὀρέων κοιλάδων ἢ φάραγξ ἢ πλαγίων, μὴ ἀπὸ βουνοῦ ἢ κάμπου ἢ πεδίων, μὴ ἀπὸ λίθου ἢ ὕδατος ἢ πηγῆς ἢ ὁδοῦ ἢ ποταμοῦ ἢ χώρας ἢ ἀγροῦ ἢ περιβολίου, μὴ ἐν κήπῳ ἢ ἐν παραδείσῳ, μὴ ἐν διόδοι(ς) ἢ ἐν τριόδοι(ς), μὴ ἐν εἰσόδοις ἢ ἐν ἐξόδοις, μὴ ἐν αὐλῇ λουτροῦ ἢ φούρνου ἢ τρωχάλου, μὴ ἐν θύρᾳ ἢ ἐν θυρίδι ἢ ἀνωγέων ἢ κατωγέων ἢ αὐλῆς ἢ ἁλωνίου, καὶ ἦλθες πειρᾶσαι τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ. μή τις ἐπαοιδὸς φθόνῳ εἰργάσατο ἢ περιεποιήσατο ἢ ἀπὸ φαρμάκου ἢ φθόνου ἢ ζήλου, μὴ ἀπὸ βαρέων 326 αἰσχρῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, μὴ ἀπὸ βασκοσύνης καὶ πάσης ἄλλης συμφορᾶς ἐπερχομένης, μὴ πρηστηριακὸν ἢ βουβιατικὸν ἢ ἐπιπεμπτικὸν ἢ κεφαλικὸν ἢ χειρῶν καρδίας καὶ ποδῶν ἢ δαιμονικὸν φασματικὸν ἢ καλὶς τῶν ὀρέων, μὴ ὀνοσκελιακὸν ἢ νεραΐδων, μὴ τῶν ἐν ζώφῳ ἀέρων πετωμένων καὶ ἤλθατε ἀδικῆσαι τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ. μὴ κεφαλόπονον ἢ ὀφθαλμόπονον ἢ ὀδοντόπονον ἢ στηθόπονον ἢ φρενόπονον ἢ χειρόπονον. μὴ δυσουρίας ἢ τρισουρίας ἢ ἐνσόχασιν ἢ ἐξόχασιν ἢ ὑστέρα(ν) ἢ στρόφου ἢ ἀρμόπονον ἢ τζίρματος ὀμαλικὸν ἢ ἄϋπνον ἢ πολύϋπνον. ἐξορκίζω ὑμᾶς εἴ τι ἄν ἐστιν ἀδικῶν τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ· ἀναχωρήσατε καὶ ἀπέλθατε εἰς τὰ ἄγρια ὄρη ὅπου ἂν εἷσαι κατακείμενον καὶ ἀδικῶν τὴν δούλην τοῦ θεοῦ. ἀναχωρήσατε καὶ ἀπέλθατε εἰς τὰ ἄγρια ὄρη μὴ ἐν τρίχεσι κεφαλῆς, μὴ ἐν μυελοῦ κάρας, μὴ ἐν κρανίου ἢ ἡμικράνου, μὴ ἐν μετώποις ἢ κροτάφοις ἢ βλεφάροις ἢ φρεσίν, μὴ ἐν μυκτήραις ἢ ὠτίοις, μὴ ἐν στόμασιν ἢ μύλεσιν ἢ χείλεσιν ἢ ὀδοντίοις, μὴ ἐν τραχήλοις ἢ ὠμοπλάταις χειρῶν, μὴ ἐν στήθοις ἢ φλεγμονίοις ἢ καρδίᾳ καὶ πᾶσα ὑγρίς, μὴ ἐν ῥάχεσι καπούλοις ἢ ὀμφαλοῖς καὶ ὑπογάστροις, μὴ ἐν γόνασι ποδῶν ἢ ἀστραγάλοις ἢ δακτύλοις καὶ ὀνύχοις ὅπου ἐὰν κατακείμενον καὶ ἀδικῶν καὶ ἐμφωλεῦον αὐτῇ, ἀναχώρησον καὶ ἄπελθε ἐπὶ τὰς τῶν ποιησάντων κεφαλὰς καὶ ἐπιπέμψαντα καὶ τῶν συνειδότων, μήτε ξένος ἐποίησεν ἢ ἴδιος ἢ παραδότης ἢ δοῦλος ἢ ἐλεύθερος, μὴ