Great-Martyr Panteleimon IconoGraphic No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Art PosterThe Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon. His mother Saint Euboula (March 30) was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when the future martyr was just a young child. His father sent Pantoleon to a pagan school, after which the young man studied medicine at Nicomedia under the renowned physician

- Matthew 24:4-14

Second Sessional Hymn after the First Reading from the Psalter

After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea

For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome

for Thou hast smashed the gates of brass

let us light our deeds as though they were radiant lamps

where the souls of the redeemed

I am the Alpha and the Omega

they who kill me will work on me no dreadful thing

as a faithful minister of God’s providence

Behold the judgment over human wisdom and intelligence

all came together in this single outcry