Antique Fine Art, Arms&Armor, Sept. 21st 2024
Lot 4252:
Beautiful Russian Enamel on Silver Icon of ”Saint Martyr Pantaleon”, who was counted in Western Christianity as among the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Late Middle Ages, and in Eastern Christianity as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, (4) was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD. According to the martyrologies, Pantaleon was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of Nicomedia, and had been instructed in Christianity by his Christian mother, Saint Eubula; however, after her death he fell away from the Christian church, while he studied medicine with a renowned physician Euphrosinos; under the patronage of Euphrosinos he became physician to the emperor, Maximian (or alternatively Galerius). Size: 6 1/2" x 5 3/4".
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