St Panteleimon the Great Martyr

(1), July 17, a physician and martyr at Nicomedia, in the Diocletian persecution. His relics were carried to Africa, and thence were translated with those of St. Cyprian to the Church of St. John Bap. in Lyons (Ado. Mart.). (G. T. S.J

(2), notary, mentioned in several letters of Gregory the Great. The first, in A.D, 593, directs him to inquire into the case of EVANGELUS (4). In A.D. 598 Gregory sent him to Sicily to recover communion plate which had been sold there by certain clerics from Italy. The next year Gregory charged the defensor, Sergius, to see that Pantaleon's mother-in-law's claims to the property of her uncle, who had died childless and intestate, were not prejudiced by the absence of her son-in-law on the business of the church. In a.p. 600 Gregory sent him to Genoa about the consecration of the new bishop of Milan. In a.p. 602 Gregory wrote to him about the church estates in Sicily under his management, and directed him to restore to the colont on them any sums which had been unjustly exacted from them. (pp. iii. 41; viii. 26; ix. 46; xi. 3; xii. 41; xiii. 34.) [F. D.

(8), rebuked, in a letter addressed to him by pope Martin I., for sending untrue information of a disparaging character about Stephen, bishop of Dorus. (Migne, Pat. Lat. \xxxvii. 169.) [G. W. D.]