Reverend prayer, for the Saint Martyr Panteleimon, in the homonymous church of Ilisostranslated

Written by Panos N. Avramopoulos

With the massive participation of the people of the 2nd District (Pagrati, Neos Kosmos), as well as a multitude of other Athenians, the reverent celebration of the healing martyr of our Orthodoxy, Panteleimon, took place on Monday 7-27-26, in the overwhelming church of Agios Panteleimon Ilisos.

The noble soul and origin of a doctor from Nicomedia in Bithynia, who refused all his riches, honors and social advancement, in order to impress upon the persecutor emperor of Christianity Maximian, his unshakable faith in Orthodoxy and to consolidate with his ideological example and martyrdom, the teachings of our Lord. Born around 275 AD in Nicomedia, from a prominent social family, the young Pantoleon, as was his real name, with an ethnic father, Eustorgios, and a Christian mother, Evvoulis. Maximianou. However, his moral fervor and the fire of his soul, for the word of the Lord, the...