✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: May 12

St. Pancras

Martyr · c. 289–304

Patron of Children, oaths

A boy of about fourteen, orphaned and brought to Rome, who was beheaded for refusing to renounce Christ during the last great persecution and became a widely loved martyr.

This teenage martyr's name spread as far as England — the London district and railway station of St. Pancras are named for him.

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