future healer Panteleimon, now known throughout the Orthodox world, was born near Constantinople, in the town of Nicomedia.His parents were very strange and unacceptable at a time Union - namely, his mother converted to Christianity, and his father is in no hurry to renounce the pagan holy faces.Therefore, the religious disagreements future martyr accustomed since childhood, and they accompanied him throughout his life.
Panteleimon mother died very early, so the boy grew up and was educated in a pagan school, under the guidance of his father.There's a healer Panteleimon learned the basics of what was then the medicine, secrets of anatomy and learned a lot of conspiracies, which under the auspices of the pagan gods could heal any disease.However, his sermons parents, teachers and all those who surrounded him, could not resist the true nature of Panteleimon.Fate brought him to martyr Ermolai, who told him about the sacrament of Christianity.Since then, the future saint became very often to go and see to my new friend, and forgotten pagan dogma.
decisive moment, after which a Christian healer Panteleimon took orders, became the day on his way, he found a dead child.He began to read the prayer of Christ, and the baby came to life, and a snake that stung him immediately disintegrated into pieces.Of course, the adoption of a stranger to his family's faith has prompted anger and discontent in his address, and for a while even his father abandoned his son.
However, one thing happened that variables and pagan parents, turning it into the Christian faith.Healer Panteleimon was supposed to return eyesight to one blind man living in Nicomedia.And when he uttered the healing prayers in the temple was his father, who saw with their own eyes the miracle that God through his son.Since then, another man stopped believing in false beliefs about the power of the pagan gods, and turned his thoughts and motives in a single faith - in the Christ the Savior.
After the death of his father inherited a great doctor rich gifts of God, which later distributed to the poor.He did not stop to heal people, saving their prayers and funeral service.It is because of his good deeds he became known to the Byzantine emperor.He was also extremely concerned about the religious prejudices of a great leader, and called that hour it to yourself.The king tried to persuade the people of Panteleimon in his belief wrap back into paganism, but in vain.After that he ordered to torture him, to bind to the body and throw a stone into the water.
However, no flour, and even fire had no effect on the body and the Holy Spirit.In 305 Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was beheaded, and he was buried according to Christian tradition.The body and head of Saint taken to Constantinople, but his relics are located in different parts of the contemporary Christian world.It is believed that they attach to any church power and grace of God.
In honor of this holy temple was built Healer Panteleimon (and in many cities).Extraordinary beauty of God's sanctuary, located in Greece, on Mount Athos.Huge and very beautiful monastery is located in Odessa.And, of course, in Moscow, Leningrad Oblast and other Russian cities are churches and monasteries that remind us of the great king, the Sermon on the dawn of the dawn of the Christian faith.
