Pancras, St., a boy martyr of 16, who suffered under the Diocletian persecution about 304, and is variously represented in mediæval legend as bearing a stone and sword, or a palm branch, and trampling a Saracen under foot, in allusion to his hatred of heathenism.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Panchatantra * Pandects