Saint Pancras of Taormina

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Saint Pancras, (Italian San Pancrazio) (first century CE) is said to have been born in Antioch in Cilicia (the modern Adana), and sent by Saint Peter to Sicily in the year 40 to be the first bishop of Tauromenium (the modern Taormina). There he met his death at the hands of Pagan opponents of the new religion.

He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, his cult being concentrated on the island of Sicily, where the veneration of saints from the eastern Mediterranean was particularly encouraged during the period of Byzantine rule. He is the patron saint of Taormina, and Canicattì. His feast day was entered into the Roman Martyrology as 3 April; recently this was amended of 8 July. More often he is celebrated on 9 July, the traditional day of his martyrdom.

[edit] References

• San Pancrazio di Taormina at santiebeati.it.

[edit] See also

• Saint Pancras, the youthfull martyr who died around 304 CE.