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Saint Sicarius of Brantôme

detail of a stained glass window of Saint Sicarius of Bethlehem by A. Perrier, 1899; church of Sainte-Madeleine, Montagrier, Dordogne, France; photographed on 27 October 2009 by Father Igor; image swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Sicarius of Bethlehem
Sicarius the Innocent
Sicario…
Sicaire…
Sicharius…

Memorial

2 May (Brantôme, France)
1 May on some calendars

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One of the Holy Innocents who died by order of King Herod.

Died

murdered in Bethlehem in Judea in the Massacre of the Innocents
a bone from his skull was enshrined in the Benedictine abbey of Saint–Pierre in Brantôme (modern Brantôme-en-Périgord), France by Blessed Charlemagne in the early 9th century
the relics are currently enshrined in a glass and bronze reliquary attached to the wall of the abbey church, the abbey itself having been suppressed in the French Revolution