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Sicarius of Brantôme

child saint

SaintDate unknown

Feast: 2 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
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Died
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Beatified
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Canonised
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Who they were

Sicarius of Brantôme or Sicarius of Bethlehem (Sicaire de Brantôme, Sicaire de Bethléem) was a child saint who was venerated from the time of Charlemagne onwards as one of the victims of the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod the Great, said to have occurred in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus. His remains are housed in the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Brantôme, Dordogne, France.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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