Panteleimon was the son of a rich pagan in Nicomedia and a Christian mother St Eubula. Although St Eubula desired that he be baptized, she died. As a young man After her death while studying medicine he feel away from Christianity. He studied medicine under the renowned physician Euphrosinos and became the physician to the Emperor Galerius.

The learned bishop St Hermolaus of Nicomedia engaged Pantaleon that Christ was the true Physician! “But, my friend, of what use are all thy acquirements in this art, since they are ignorant of the science of salvation?”

Accepting his renewed faith he invoked the name of Jesus healing a blind man. This miracle was instrumental in converting his father from paganism. Pantaleon openly proclaimed his Christianity provoking the denunciation of his colleagues and during the Diocletian persecution he refused “apostasy” in turn proclaiming Faith in Christ and healing a paralytic.

INVOKED AGAINST – HEADACHES, COMSUMPTION, LOCUSTS, WITCHCRAFT, ACCIDENTS,

LONELINESS AND HELPER OF CRYING CHILDEN