Sicarius

Saint Sicarius of Brantôme (also called Sicarius of Bethlehem) is a child saint, venerated from the time of Charlemagne as one of the victims of the slaughter of the infants of Bethlehem by Herod the Great at the birth of the Savior. His remains are kept in the abbey of Saint-⁠Pierre at Brantôme in the Dordogne, France. He is venerated only at Brantôme and around it.

Tradition says that Saint Helena brought the relics from the Holy Land in the year 328, and that Charlemagne gave them to the abbey of Brantôme, in the year 769. They lie in a small reliquary of glass and bronze fixed to the church wall. Their authenticity is, however, doubted: the bones may be those of a child named after a bishop of Laon, and the inscription on the tomb, dedicated to an "innocent", may have led to his veneration as an infant killed by Herod. Sabine Baring-⁠Gould asked how the infant of a Hebrew mother received a Latin name; the name Sicarius means "cut-⁠throat". A fountain near the monastery bears his name. He is commemorated on 2 May, by the Western calendar. His veneration is local, without synodal canonization.