It's his Feast, and he has a London Underground station named for him.
And a comment on the video from Warsaw:
A central European perspective. St Pancras is one of the three Ice Saints (along with St Boniface and St Servatus). Their feast-days come on 11 May (St Boniface), 12 May (St Pancras) and 13 May (Servatius); a time of spring that often coincides with a cold snap. In Poland, these three saints are known as the Cold Gardeners (zimni ogrodnicy); Austrian, Belgian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, North-Italian, Slovak, Slovene and Swiss folklore also have the same tradition. Climate change has put an end to all this, however; in Warsaw today we had high of 27C. Tomorrow is St Pancras's Day, 24C forecast.
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