A native of Nicomedia, from a pagan father and a Christian mother. As a young man, he studied medicine. One blind man, whom the doctors treated in vain, he healed with the name of Christ. The doctors accused him to Emperor Maximian, before whom he declared himself a Christian and before whom he healed a dispossessed man in the same way as he healed a blind man. The emperor put Saint Panteleimon to torment, but the Lord appeared to him several times and healed him. Finally, at the point of loss, he kneels to pray. The executioner hits him on the neck with a sword, but the sword breaks. And he could not cut him down until he had finished the prayer and himself told them to cut him down. Saint Panteleimon was martyred in 304. His relics are miraculous. It is invoked in the prayers during the water consecration and the consecration of the firewood.

Saint Clement of Ohrid. Blessed Nicholas. Venerable Anthusa. One hundred and fifty-three Martyrs of Thrace.