Sigismund of Burgundy

Who they were

At Saint-Maurice-en-Valais in Raetia, in present-day Switzerland, the deposition of Saint Sigismund, who, king of the Burgundians, converted from the Arian heresy to the Catholic faith, established in this place a choir of monks who sang hymns unceasingly before the tomb of the martyrs, atoned for the crime he had committed by penance, tears and fasting, and met his death in the territory of Orléans, drowned in a well by his enemies.

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 1 May as a king of the Burgundians who left Arianism for the Catholic faith, did penance for his crime and was drowned by his enemies.

Connected on this site

• Palladius of Embrun Saint
  “When the Arians and Sigismund of Burgundy opposed the council, Catulin was exiled to Vienne.” — Wikipedia