# Pancratius, A Youth Of Fourteen Years, Beheaded For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, Without The City Of Rome, A. D. 303.

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There was at that time a Christian youth of fourteen
years, called Pancratius, who, when he was
brought before the Emperor Diocletian found such
special favor in the eyes of the latter, that he promised
to adopt him as his son, if he would abandon
Christ, and show honor to the gods of the Romans.
But this youth, who was old in the knowledge and
love of his Savior, showed such steadfastness in defending
his faith and despising the gods, that the
Emperor, filled with rage, commanded that he
should be decapitated, on the Aurelian way, just
out of the city of Rome. Thus this youth loved the
honor of his Savior more than his own life, and
hence he is justly reckoned among the number of
the pious martyrs. Acta per Sicrium, bona fide
edita, secundum Mellinum, in Tract super, fol. 139,
col. 4.



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