physician-saints

Updated: September 10, 2025

As in the case of other physician-saints of the Roman Church—St Roch, St Cosmo and St Damiano—Pantaleone was especially besought in cases of the plague, which owing to the intercommunication between Amalfi and the Orient, frequently ravaged the towns of this coast.

Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan - The Naples Riviera