Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français') (BHL 6429-6439) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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Saint Pantaleon's remains were replaced from its tomb in Constantinopel to the Benedictine Abbey in Cologne by St. Gero. Later, the relics were moved by Saint Bruno I the Great to St-Pantaleon. His blood would be preserved in Ravello near Amalfi while the head of the saint was kept in the St-John Cathedral in Lyon.

Life of Saint Pantaleon (+ 305). He came from Nicomedië and worked as a doctor in the service of Emperor Maximus Herculius. Pantaleon became converted by Bishop Hermolaos and was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian. According to legend, he was thrown to the lions, but the beasts refused to harm him. Eventually Pantaleon died by decapitation. On the moment of his execution there was miraculously no blood spilled, but milk came out his wounds instead.

MEYER (P.), Versions en prose des Vies des Pères, in: Histoire Littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 411 (fragment)

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