Saints celebrated on the 12th of May
SAINT PANCRAS, MARTYR
Saint Pancras was martyred in Rome. In the reign of Diocletian and Maximian, he was apprehended, and after he firmly refused to sacrifice to the pagan idol Jupiter, he was beheaded. A lady named Octavilla secretly buried his body on the Aurelian Way. His prayers are invoked for jobs, health, and children.
PRAYER:
May your Church rejoice, O God,
confident in the intercession of the Martyr Saint Pancras,
and by his glorious prayers
may she persevere in devotion to you
and stand ever firm.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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[St Pancras is one of the Ice Saints.]
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FR BUTLER'S ENTRY ON ST PANCRAS:
He is said to have suffered at Rome in the fourteenth year of his age. Having been beheaded for the faith, which he had gloriously confessed under Diocletian in the year 304, he was interred in the cemetery of Calepodius, which afterward took his name.
FALSE OATHS ARE PUNISHED BY A PERPETUAL MIRACLE
His old church in that place was repaired in the fifth century by Pope Symmachus, and in the seventh by Pope Honorius I. St Gregory the Great speaks of his relics. St Gregory of Tours calls him the Avenger of Perjuries, and says that God by a perpetual miracle visibly punished false oaths made before his relics. Pope Vitalian sent a portion of them to King Oswi in 656.
HIS CHURCHES
Italy, England, France, Spain, etc., abound with churches which bear his name. See D. Jenichen, Diss. de S. Pancratio, urbis et ecclesiæ primariæ Giessensis patrono titulari, in 4to. anno 1758, at Giessen, an university in Upper Hesse, belonging to the landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt.
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