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Cizy de Rieux
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Beatified
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Canonised
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Who they were
Saint Cizy of Rieux, of the family of the Dukes of Burgundy, was a soldier of Charlemagne, a native of Besançon, taken prisoner by Muslims coming from Spain. He refused to renounce his Christian faith and embrace Islam, and was martyred at the foot of the city of Angonia, near Rieux-Volvestre in Haute-Garonne, of which he is patron saint.
Summary translated from the French Wikipedia article Cizy de Rieux (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Nominis (Conference des eveques de France) — Saint Cizy de Besancon — French bishops' conference saints database carries him: soldier of Charlemagne from Besancon, martyred rather than apostatise to Islam, patron of Rieux-Volvestre where the cathedral keeps a reliquary with one of his teet
- Wikidata Q2974918 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.