Sanctius

Saint Sanctius (Sancho, Sancius) was born at Albi in France and was taken as a prisoner of war to Córdoba in Spain. He was educated at the Moorish court and enrolled in the emir's guard as a soldier. Because he refused to embrace Islam he was martyred by impalement, in the year 851.

He is commemorated on 5 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar. He is counted among the Martyrs of Córdoba, Christians put to death under the Muslim rule of al-⁠Andalus.