1. Saint Pantaleon was won back to Christianity by Saint Hermolaus, who convinced him that Christ was the better physician, signalling the significance of the exemplum of Pantaleon that faith is to be trusted over medical advice.
16 Facts About Saint Pantaleon
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Saint Pantaleon studied medicine with such success, that the Emperor Maximian appointed him his physician.
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Saint Pantaleon freed his slaves and distributed his wealth among the poor.
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Saint Pantaleon openly confessed his faith, and as proof that Christ was the true God, he healed a paralytic.
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Saint Pantaleon was now thrown into the sea, loaded with a great stone, which floated.
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Saint Pantaleon was thrown to wild beasts, but these fawned upon him and could not be forced away until he had blessed them.
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Saint Pantaleon was bound on the wheel, but the ropes snapped, and the wheel broke.
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Saint Pantaleon implored Heaven to forgive them, for which reason he received the name of Panteleimon.
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Saint Pantaleon is depicted as a beardless young man holding a book with a cross on it.
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The Eastern tradition concerning Saint Pantaleon follows more or less the medieval Western hagiography, but lacks any mention of a visible apparition of Christ.
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The Canons' Vestry off the south transept of Chichester Cathedral was formerly a square-plan chapel dedicated to Saint Pantaleon - it was possibly under construction just before the cathedral's great fire of 1187.
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The Church of Saint Pantaleon, in Cologne is a 10th-century Romanesque church, commissioned by the niece of the Byzantine emperor, Theophanu, who married the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II in 972.
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At the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen near Staffelstein in Franconia, St Saint Pantaleon is venerated with his hands nailed to his head, reflecting another legend about his death.
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Paolo Veronese's painting of Pantaleon can be found in the church of San Pantalon in Venice; it shows the saint healing a child.
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Saint Pantaleon was depicted in an 8th-century fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome, and in a 10th-century cycle of pictures in the crypt of San Crisogono in Rome.
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Saint Pantaleon is one of the patron saints of the city of Porto in Portugal, together with John the Baptist and Our Lady of Vendome.