Sampson the Hospitable

Sampson the Hospitable

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name=Saint Sampson
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death_date=c. 530
feast_day=June 27
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Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches


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birth_place=Rome
death_place=Constantinople
titles=The Hospitable
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Sampson the Hospitable (died c. 530) was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches.

Life

Sampson born in Rome to a prominent family. He was a physician who devoted much of his time to helping the poor and sick. He turned his home into a free clinic, providing his patients with food and lodging as well as medical care. He was later ordained a priest by the patriarch. When the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great became ill he sent for Sampson to cure him. He was the only physician in the city to do the emperor any good, and the emperor wanted to reward him. Sampson requested that the emperor help him establish a new hospital for the poor. With the emperor's assistance Sampson founded the hospital, which became the largest free clinic in the empire and served the people of Constantinople for 600 years.

Sampson was buried in the Church of the Holy Martyr Mocius in Constantinople.

External links

* [http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=083086275378 Sampson the Hospitable]
* [http://www.missionstclare.com/english/people/jun27o.html Orthodox Calendar - Sampson the Hospitable]
* [http://www.byzantium1200.com/sampson.html Reconstruction of the Hospital of Sampson in Istanbul]


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