Patron Saint of Children

Saint Pancras is invoked as patron of children. Saint Pancras (Latin Pancratius) is a Roman martyr who, according to a tradition recorded in the sixth-century Gelasian Sacramentary and the Roman Martyrology, was beheaded on the Via Aurelia about the year 304 during the persecution of Diocletian. He is said to have been a youth of about fourteen, of Phrygian birth, who came to Rome with his uncle and was baptized there.Pope Symmachus (498-514) built a basilica over his tomb on the Via Aurelia. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.

Saint Nicholas is invoked as patron of children. Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in Lycia (a Greek-speaking province of southern Asia Minor) in the early fourth century. The earliest reliable sources record him as one of the bishops who had suffered imprisonment in the persecution of Diocletian (303-311) and emerged to attend the Council of Nicaea in 325, where he is said by some lists (though not the most ancient ones) to have been among the 318 fathers who condemned Arianism. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.