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Saint

Pancharius

A hierarch remembered in Western calendars, died around 356; few details survive.

Feast
July 22old style August 4
Reposed
3564th century
Place
Besançon

Life

Pancharius was bishop of Besançon in France and died around the year 356. He suffered much under the Arian emperor Constantius. He is remembered on 22 July in the Western calendar (new style).

No other details have been preserved. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.

Commemorated the same day July 22