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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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PANTALEON, a native of Nicomedia, was taught most branches of human learning by his father, who was a pagan, and the precepts of the gospel by his mother, who was a christian.
APPLYING to the study of medicine, he became eminent in the knowledge of physic, and in process of time was appointed physician to the emperor Galerius.
HIS name in Greek signifies humane, and the appellation well-suited his nature, for he was one of the most benevolent men living. He assisted the poor, to the utmost of his fortune; and, by the help of God, his skill in physic was attended with the most astonishing success.
HIS reputation roused the jealousy of the pagan physicians, who accused him to the emperor. Galerius, finding him a christian, which he had not before known, ordered him to be tortured, and then beheaded, which was done July 27, A. D. 305.