Saint Pantaleon of Nicomedia: Physician, Great-Martyr, Unmercenary Healer, and Wonderworker

The physician who became a saint. The martyr the whole Christian world still calls on for healing.In the Greek East they call him Panteleimon - "all-compassionate." In the Latin West, Pantaleon. For seventeen centuries, Christians of every tradition have carried his name into hospitals, monasteries, and prayers for the sick.But who was he, really - and how do we know?Saint Pantaleon of Nicomedia is the first complete source-critical history of one of Christianity's most beloved and most widely venerated saints: a young imperial physician in fourth-century Nicomedia whose conversion, betrayal, and martyrdom made him - across Greek, Latin, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, and Slavonic Christianity alike - the patron of physicians, the unmercenary healer, and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.This is not a retelling of pious legend. It is a rigorous, evidence-classified account that follows the saint's story from the Great Persecution of 303 AD through seventeen centuries of relics, miracles, and veneration - while always showing you exactly how we know what we know.Inside, you'll find: - The full traditional Life - his family, his conversion under the priest Hermolaus, his trial, and his martyrdom, set against the real history of imperial Nicomedia- The textual dossier - Greek, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, Latin, Old English, and Slavonic witnesses to his Passion, traced and compared- A worldwide relic register - from Mount Athos and Constantinople to Ravello, Cologne, Madrid, and beyond, with each claim weighed on its evidence- Centuries of miracle archives - from medieval Passau to nineteenth-century Russia, each account classified by what it can and cannot prove- His teachings and medical legacy - the words attributed to Pantaleon himself, and his enduring identity as patron of physicians, hospitals, and Christian healing- His liturgical memory and art - the hymns, feasts, canons, and icons through which the Church has honored him from Byzantium to the present day- A full reference apparatus - chronology, manuscript catalogue, annotated bibliography, and detailed indices, making this as valuable a research tool as it is a devotional readWhether you venerate him as Panteleimon the Great-Martyr, know him as one of the Holy Helpers, or are simply drawn to the rare kind of hagiography that treats evidence as seriously as it treats devotion, this book gives you the most complete portrait of Saint Pantaleon ever assembled in a single volume - for Orthodox and Catholic readers alike.Physician, Great-Martyr, Unmercenary Healer, and Wonderworker - meet the saint behind seventeen centuries of healing and hope.