Sigits of Gothia

Holy Martyr Sigits of Gothia was one of the Gothic Christians killed by fire in a church, around the year 375, in the time of King Ungerich.

Sigits is counted among the Gothic laymen who died with the priests Vafusius and Verk, the monk Arpila and many others. King Ungerich, a persecutor of Christians, ordered the church set on fire during the service, and in the flames three hundred and eight people perished, of whom the names of twenty-⁠one are known: Vafusius and Verk, priests, Arpila, a monk, Aviv, Agn, Reas, Igathrax, Iskoy, Silas, Sigits, Sonirill, Suimvl, Ferm, Fill, Constans and Prince Agathon, and the martyrs Anna, Alla, Larissa, Moiko, Mamika, Uirko, Animais, Gaafa, the queen of the Goths, and Duklida, the princess of the Goths. The widow of the Gothic king, Alla, with her daughter Duklida, gathered the remains of the martyrs and took them to Syria; then she returned to her homeland, where she was stoned as a martyr together with her son Agathon. The relics remained with Duklida, who in the time of the emperors Valentinian II and Theodosius the Great came to Cyzicus and gave a part of them for the consecration of a church. Duklida died in peace.

Sigits is commemorated on 8 April, in the new style, together with the other Gothic martyrs.