On Mon, 12 May 1997, CA. Muessig wrote:
> Today, 12 May, is the feast of ...
>
> Pancras, martyr (304) - Augustine dedicated in his honour
> the first church he erected in Canterbury. Fifty years
> later Pope St Vitalian sent to Oswy, king of
> Northumberland, a portion of the martyr's relics, the
> distribution of which seems to have propagated his cult in
> England.
>
those who were at the Kalamazoo sessions organized by the Haskins
society, could have heard Chris Lewis explain how the relics of Pancras
which ended up at Waltham, could well be those in the portable shrine
Harold is depicted as swearing on in the Bayeux Tapestry. This was part
of a full and illuminating expose of the cult of the Roman Pancras (as
opposed to the Sicilian one) in Britain.
>
Cheers,
Georges Whalen
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