Euboula

Euboula was a Christian woman of Nicomedia in Asia Minor, remembered as the mother of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. By tradition she was raised in the Christian faith by devout parents and married a pagan named Eustorgios. The synaxarion presents her chiefly through her role as a mother: she instructed her son in the faith from his earliest years, and the tradition credits this upbringing with shaping the Christian conviction for which he later gave his life.

According to the accounts of her life, Euboula reposed in peace around the year 303, shortly before the outbreak of the persecution under the emperor Diocletian in which her son was martyred. She is commemorated on March 30 and is numbered among the righteous rather than the martyrs, having died before the persecution reached her household.

Euboula's veneration is closely bound to that of her son. She is especially honored at the Russian Monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos, and she is widely regarded as a patroness of Orthodox mothers, remembered for raising a child in the faith amid a pagan marriage.