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Nicetius of Lyon
Bishop of Lyon
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 2 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
513
Died
573
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Lyon in France, Saint Nicetius, bishop, who was attentive to the poor and kind to the simple and taught this Church to follow a rule in the recitation of the psalms.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 2 April as a bishop of Lyon, attentive to the poor, who gave his Church a rule for reciting the psalms.
Connected on this site
- Tetricus of Langres Saint“According to Gregory of Tours, who was a later relative of Tetricus, the Merovingian king Chilperic I had a dream in which Tetricus, along with Agricola of Chalon-sur-Saône and Nicetius of Lyon appeared to the king.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 2 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2356035 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nicetius of Lyon (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.