Category:Saint Pancras

Born: ~289 in Synnada, Phrygia Died: ~304 in Via Aurelia, Rome Honored in: Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Major shrine: San Pancrazio, Rome Feast: May 12 Attributes: depicted as a young man or soldier Patronage: children; invoked against cramps, false witness, headache, and perjury

Saint Pancras of Rome (d. circa 304, possibly) is a Roman martyr of the Via Aurelia. He brought to Rome by his uncle and, at the age of fourteen, martyred by beheading under the Emperor Diocletian ( 284-305; started his persecution in 303). Pope Saint Symmachus (498-514) erected a basilica over his grave in the cemetery of Octavilla.