page_title: Saint Pantaleon
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Pantaleon
caption_attribution_description: Icon of saint Panteleimon (Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai) / Единственная житийная икона св. Пантелеймона византийского времени
context_page_description: Saint Pantaleon, counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
  Though there is evidence to suggest that a martyr named Pantaleon existed, some consider the stories of his life and death to be purely legendary.
context_section_description: Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων, Russian: Пантелеи́мон, romanized: Panteleímon; "all-compassionate"), counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
  Though there is evidence to suggest that a martyr named Pantaleon existed, some consider the stories of his life and death to be purely legendary.
caption: 13th century icon of Saint Panteleimon, including scenes from his life, from the Monastery of St. Katherine on Mount Sinai
exif: {}