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Shrine to St Pancras, made in northern Germany, c. 1300 Devotion to Pancras existed from the fifth century onwards, for the basilica of Saint Pancras was built by Pope Symmachus (498–514), on the place where the body of the young martyr had been buried; his earliest passio seems to have been written during this time. [4]
Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, a local government area (1900-1965) St Pancras, Soper Lane, a church in the City of London; St Pancras, a church in the village of West Bagborough, Somerset; Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park, a church in Liverpool, Merseyside; St Pancras Church, Ipswich, a church in Ipswich, Suffolk
The Inwoods collaborated on two other Greek Revival churches in the parish of St Pancras: All Saints, Camden Town (1822–4), and St Peter's, Regent Square (1822–5, now demolished). They were also joint architects of St Mary's Chapel, Somers Town in the same parish, built in 1824–7 in a naive "Carpenter's Gothic" style. [2]
The Armenian synaxarion (Յայսմաւուրք) gives an extensive account of Pancras' acts, including his evangelization of all the cities and villages of Sicily. [3] Saint Pancras of Taormina should not be confused with Saint Pancras of Rome, a young man who was martyred by being beheaded around the year 304.
The basilica was built by Pope Symmachus (498–514), on the place where the body of the young martyr Saint Pancras of Rome, or Pancratius, had been buried, Via Aurelia miliario secundo ('on the Via Aurelia at the second milestone'). The church was originally placed by him under the care of the clergy of the Church of S. Crisogono.
Saint Pancras converted to Christianity while in Rome. At the age of 14, he was beheaded in May 304 AD when he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. Diocletian, emperor at the time, was impressed with young Pancras and how he had the courage to refuse sacrificing to the gods, so he offered Pancras money and power to leave the Christian faith ...
The Tridentine calendar had on 12 May a joint feast (semidouble rank) of Nereus, Achilleus and Pancras.The name of Domitilla was added in 1595. [1] The joint celebration of Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras continued with that ranking in the General Roman Calendar of 1954, was reduced to that of simple in the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII and that of third-class feast in the ...
Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ ˈ b ɛ tʃ ə m ən /; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.