St. Pantaleon
Feast 07-27 · Canonized Pre-Congregation
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About
Pantaleon was a physician of Nicomedia in Asia Minor who lived in the late third century. The son of a wealthy pagan father and a Christian mother, he was converted to Christianity by the priest Hermolaus and devoted his medical skill to serving the poor without charge.
During the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, he was denounced as a Christian, arrested, and subjected to tortures from which, according to tradition, he was repeatedly delivered by miracles. He was finally beheaded around 305.
Pantaleon is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and is counted among the great martyr physicians of the early Church. He is invoked by physicians and by the sick, and his intercession is sought for healing of all kinds.
Suggested prayer
O God, who gave St. Pantaleon grace to heal the poor without charge and to endure martyrdom for the faith, grant through his intercession that physicians may serve with compassion and that healing may come to body and soul. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
