St Panteleimon The Healer, Orthodox Icon

Size: 16" x 12"

SAINT PANTELEIMON. A SAINT of both the EAST and WEST!
In the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers, in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers
Feast Day July 27th (August 8th on the Julian calendar). Coptic calendar 19 Epip

St Panteleimon's relics are in the St Panteleimon Monasteries on Mt Athos, Crete, Cyprus and Macedonia. His head is venerated at the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon on Mt Athos. Numerous churches are dedicated to him in Greece and Russia.

PATRON OF PHYSICIANS, APOTHECARIES, MIDWIVES, LIVESTOCK, LOTTERY, LOTTERY WINNERS, VICTORIES AND THE SICK
INVOKED AGAINST HEADACHES, CONSUMPTION, LOCUSTS, WITCHCRAFT, ACCIDENTS, LONELINESS AND HELPER OF CRYING CHILDREN

ICON DESCRIPTION:
St Panteleimon is pictured as a beardless young man holding a compartmented apothecary (medicine) box sometimes with vials and a long handled spatula or spoon for dispensing medicine.