**He may also be shown ... with a Saracen under his feet.**
I’m supposing that saracen is the same as muslim. I’m wondering why a teenage boy martyr who lived centuries before Muhammad would have a connection with a saracen?
St. Pancras was a Phrygian youth who was martyred in the persecution of Diocletian in 304 and buried in the cemetery of Calepodius on the Aurelian Way. He is shown with a sword in the 20th-century window (shown here on the left) of St. Pancras Church, Plymouth, England, presumably because he shares his feast day with SS. Nereus and Achilleus, who died in the same persecution and who were indeed soldiers.
Feast day: May 12
6 posted on 05/12/2008 10:26:50 AM PDT by Salvation
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