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Pancras, St.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A boy martyr of 16, who suffered under the Diocletian persecution about 304, and is variously represented in mediæval legend as bearing a stone and sword, or a palm branch, and trampling a Saracen under foot, in allusion to his hatred of heathenism.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pancras, St.'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pancras-st.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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