Sampson the Hospitable

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Eastern Roman Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Catholic Churches Catholic Church
Feast	June 27

Sampson the Hospitable (Greek: Σαμψὼν ὁ φιλόξενος, Sampsón ho philóxenos; died c. 530 AD) 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 as well in the Catholic Church.

Life

Sampson (or Samson) was 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

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, Samson 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

.

External links

• Sampson the Hospitable
• Orthodox Calendar – Sampson the Hospitable
• Reconstruction of the Hospital of Sampson in Istanbul