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Since he was said to have been martyred at the age of fourteen during the persecution under Diocletian, Pancras would have been born around 289, at a place designated as near Synnada, a city of Phrygia Salutaris, to parents of Roman citizenship.

His mother Cyriada died during childbirth, while his father Cleonius died when Pancras was eight years old.

Pancras was entrusted to his uncle Dionysius ’ care.

They both moved to Rome to live in a villa on the Caelian Hill.

They converted to Christianity, and Pancras became a zealous adherent of the religion.