
Catholic novena
Novena to St. Pantaleon
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Prayer source
Reviewed public-domain English devotional edition (1909)
Bonaventure Hammer, O.F.M., Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers (Benziger Brothers, 1909), Part IV, Novena to Each of the Holy Helpers, IV. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33596/pg33596-images.html
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- A complete novena in honor of St. Pantaleon, from Father Bonaventure Hammer's 1909 devotional manual. The same full prayer is said on each of the nine days.
- Often prayed for
- Mercy for the sick, good health for God's service, patience in illness, and charity through works of mercy.
- Suggested start
- July 18, 2027. You may also begin this novena at any time.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- July 27
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About This Novena
St. Pantaleon's novena is compassionate and practical. It asks for health, but it does not idolize it; if sickness remains, the prayer asks that it become a path of patience and salvation.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the sick, physicians, healing, and patient endurance in illness.
Usual timing
July 18 through July 26
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Preparatory Prayer
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.
Moreover, I beseech Thee to grant graciously, through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper, the petition which through him I humbly place before Thee, devoutly saying, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it redounds to Thy greater glory and to the salvation of my soul. Amen.
Prayer and Invocation
O GOD, who didst give to St. Pantaleon the grace of exercising charity toward his fellow-men by distributing his goods to the poor, and hast made him a special patron of the sick, grant, that we, too, show our charity by works of mercy; and through the intercession of this Thy servant preserve us from sickness. But if it be Thy will that illness should afflict us, give us the grace to bear it patiently, and let it promote our soul's salvation. Amen.
Invocation
ST. PANTALEON, who during life didst have great pity for the sick and with the help of God didst often relieve and cure them; I invoke thy 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 His holy will to visit me with illness, pain, and suffering, do thou aid me with thy powerful prayer to submit humbly to His chastisements, to accept sickness in the spirit of penance and to bear it patiently according to His holy will. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
MY LORD and my God! I offer up to Thee my petition in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, together with the merits of His immaculate and blessed Mother, Mary ever virgin, and of all the saints, particularly with those of the holy Helper in whose honor I make this novena.
Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Thy grace and Thy love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen.
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A complete novena in honor of St. Pantaleon, from Father Bonaventure Hammer's 1909 devotional manual. The same full prayer is said on each of the nine days.
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Description
St. Pantaleon's novena is compassionate and practical. It asks for health, but it does not idolize it; if sickness remains, the prayer asks that it become a path of patience and salvation.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
the sick, physicians, healing, patient endurance in illness
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for the sick, physicians, healing, and patient endurance in illness.
Usual timing
July 18 through July 26

Saint Pantaleon, color reproduction of a painting
