He is one of the best loved of all the boy saints in the Catholic Church. Saint Pancratius was martyred at the age of fourteen. By way of a gift, one of the Popes in the seventh century sent one of his relics to England. There, to this very day, English Catholics — who call him Saint Pancras — love and venerate this heroic Christian martyr.
Pancras before the Emperor, in a 19th-century tableau in the Church of St Pancras at Griesheim, Alsace (details)
