According to Orthodox tradition, sometime after the Resurrection of Christ, Lazarus was forced to flee Judea because of rumored plots on his life and came to Cyprus. Lazarus of Bethany is honored as a saint by those Christian churches which keep the commemoration of saints, although on different days, according to local.Saint Lazarus depicted as suffering from hunger and leprosy and attended to by helpful dogs.The Church of Saint Lazarus is named after the biblical figure Lazarus of Bethany, who Jesus is believed to have raised from the dead. It is possible that king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was a. It was established to treat leprosy, its knights originally being lepers themselves. The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani) is an order of chivalry originally founded at a leper hospital after 1098 by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
My answer includes a link to the second one at the bottom. Protestants and Jews just call him Lazarus, without the saint.Answer (1 of 3): There are two people by this name. His Feast Day is December 17th.This Lazarus was a Jew, not a Christian, but he has been called a saint by the Catholic church. Lazarus is the patron saint for those who suffer from leprosy. Saint Lazarus is called upon to help victims of stroke, AIDS, those who are in comas, and those who suffer from other long-term, chronic health issues.
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As a virtuous man, Lazarus goes to his reward in Heaven and rests in the bosom of Abraham for all eternity. Dives and Lazarus both die on the same day. The wealthy man, whom tradition later named Dives, never gives Lazarus a bite of food, although he dines extravagantly himself every evening. Mercy is shown to the man by dogs who come to him and lick his wounds while he sits outside of a wealthy man's gate.
The dogs mentioned in Christ's parable are present, licking Lazarus' wounds in an attempt to help him heal.In the African Diasporic religion of Cuban Santeria or Lukumi, Saint Lazarus is associated with the orisha Babalu Aye in this guise he is seen as an especially benevolent spirit for those who suffer with long-term illnesses like AIDS. Dives then pleads for Lazarus to be sent back to Earth to warn his five narcissistic and greedy brothers about the punishments that await those who are not kind to the poor, but, it is said, men as hard-hearted as they would not heed a call to charity, even from one who rose from the grave, and so there the matter ends.In his iconography, Lazarus is depicted as a thin man, often in few clothes, with sores of leprosy on his body. Looking up, he sees Lazarus above him, and begs Lazarus for a drop of water to drink, but Lazarus cannot help him.
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