Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum of Asia4
O glorious holy martyr Antipos and quick helper to Christians in illness! I believe with all my soul and thought that the Lord has given you the gift of healing the sick, healing the sick, and strengthening the weak.
For this reason, for your sake, as a blessed doctor of illnesses, I, weak, come running and, kissing your venerable image with reverence, I pray: by your intercession from the Heavenly King, ask me, to the sick, healing from the dental disease that depresses me, since I am unworthy of you, my most gracious father and my most faithful protector, but you, being an imitator of God’s love for mankind, create me worthy of your intercession through my conversion from evil deeds to a good life, heal the ulcers and scabs of my soul and body with the grace abundantly given to you, grant me health and salvation in everything good haste, yes, having lived such a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, I will be deemed worthy with all the saints to glorify the all-holy name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
* Translation by Hieromonk Feofan (Adamenko).
1 Sequence of prayer singing for the sick.
2 Handbook of an Orthodox person. Prayer singing for the sick.
3 Canon. Canon of the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon “The All-Tsarina”.
4 Menaion. April. St. sschmch. Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum in Asia.