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than what concerns us was brought into post-British England 

 by St. Augustine, who so dedicated the chapel, now a ruin, 

 between the monastery of St. Augustine and the primseval church 

 of St. Martin, at Canterbury; a church, the Roman-British 

 origin of which is an undoubted historical fact. There is a 

 repetition of St. Pancras in Kent, between Dover and Canter- 

 bury, at Coldred by Sibertswold.*' Two St. Pancrases in London 

 may be attributed to Augustine's companion, Mellitus, the first 

 Bishop of London. There are also three in Sussex ; and one at 

 Wroot in North Lincolnshire. This last is probably due to 

 Oswiu of Northumbria, to whom Pope Vitalian sent reliques of 

 the Roman Pancras. It is most likely, however, that these two 

 distinct importations of this name the Roman-English of St. 

 Augustine, and the British of Damnonia are commemorations 

 of two different Catholic saints, of the same name, of two 

 different ages. That of the east of England was of course the 

 Roman one of the fourth century ; whose day, in the Roman 

 calendar, is May 12. This patron of so many churches in West 

 Britain, was more likely to have been the earlier one ; said to 

 have been made a Bishop and sent into Sicily by the Apostle 

 St. Peter, and martyred at Taormine in the first century. f He 

 does not appear in western calendars, but is found in the Greek 

 Menologium under February 9. Another curious example of a 

 prse-Saxon Catholic dedication seems to have puzzled Augustine 

 and Gregory, at finding it already in Britain before their 

 mission. Instead of their own Roman Martyr, Pope Sixtus 

 (Aug. 6), to whom they took substantial care to appropriate it, 

 he may have been St. Sextus, a Sicilian Martyr (Dec. 31), or St. 

 Sixtus, an Apostle of the Gauls (Sept. 1). The preference of 

 the British Christians for the eastern calendars is confirmed 

 by another example ; the frequent occurrence in the dedications 

 of Cornwall, Devon, and Wales, of the martyrs SS. Julitta and 

 Cyricius : = Syriac in Cornwall, = Cyres in Devon, = Curig in 

 Wales. 



* Ferrostraticb " Shepherdswell." 



t Baronii Ann. A.D. 44, quoting Metaphrastes. 



