#pantaleon

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Master of the Blumenrahmen after Master MS Triumph over all temptations in the hour of death A man on deathbed, holding a lit candle; he is surrounded by a monk, the Virgin, Christ, St John, the fourteen auxiliary saints, and angels; six demons assemble in the foreground

~ Arm Reliquary of Saint Pantaleon.

Culture: Rhenish 

Date: Reliquary: late 13th century; Additions: 15th century

Period: Medieval

Place of origin: Germany

Almighty and eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshiping Thy divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before Thee and invoke with filial trust Thy supreme bounty and mercy.

Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Thy heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the saint in whose honor I make this novena, and following his example imitate, like him, the life of Thy divine Son.

St. Pantaleon who during your life had great pity for the sick and with the help of God often relieved and cured them, I invoke your intercession with God, that I may obtain the grace to serve Him in good health by cheerfully fulfilling the duties of my state of life.

But if it be God’s Holy Will to allow me illness, pain, and suffering, aid me with your powerful prayer to submit humbly to His trials and crosses, to accept sickness in the spirit of penance, and to bear all patiently according to His Holy Will.