St. Panteleimon (Pantaleon)
(d.c.305)

According to legend, St. Pantaleimon (the all-compassionate) was a physician who did not take fees. He was martyred under the emperor Diocletian, probably at Nicomedia.

In art he is depicted as a young man holding his doctor's tools or his physician's bag.


Orthodox nameday: 27/7


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