Description
The Great Martyr and Healer Agios Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon. His mother Saint Evoula (Euboula) [+ March 30th] was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when the future martyr was just a young child. His father sent Pantoleon to a pagan school, after which the young man studied medicine at Nicomedia under the renowned physician Euphrosynos. Pantoleon came to the attention of the pagan Roman emperor Maximian (284-305 AD), who wished to appoint him as royal physician when he finished his schooling.
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