St. Pancras
Feast 05-12
Patron of
About
Pancras was a young Roman martyr of the early fourth century. According to tradition, he was born in Phrygia and came to Rome as an orphan, where he converted to Christianity. He was beheaded during the persecution of Diocletian around the year 304, at the age of about fourteen.
A church was built over his tomb on the Via Aurelia, and his cult spread widely across Europe. In England, St. Pancras Old Church in London is one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in the country.
He is venerated as a patron of children, youth, and those who suffer injustice.
Suggested prayer
O God, who gave St. Pancras courage to give his life for Christ at fourteen, grant through his intercession that children and the young may have brave faith and pure hearts. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
