Pancras, Sr, the son of a heathen noble of Synnada in Phrygia, lost both parents whilst a boy, and was taken to Rome by an uncle, and there baptised, but immediately afterwards was slain (304) in the Diocletian persecution, being only fourteen years old. The first church that St Augustine consecrated in England was dedicated to St Pancras; it stood at Canterbury.—The London terminus of the Midland Railway, St Pancras Station, is situated in the parish of St Pancras. See G. Clinch, Marylebone and St Pancras (1891).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 732–733
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