Saint Kizito

{{Short description|Roman Catholic martyr from Uganda}} {{redirect|Kizito|other people with the name|Kizito (name)}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint |name=Kizito |birth_date=1872 |death_date=June 3, {{Death year and age|1886|1872}} |feast_day=June 3 |venerated_in=Catholic Church |image=St. Kizito being baptised by St. Charles Lwanga at Munyonyo.jpg |imagesize= |caption=St. Kizito being baptised by St. Charles Lwanga at Munyonyo – Stained glass at Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine

|birth_place=Buganda, Uganda |death_place=Namugongo, Uganda |titles=Martyr |beatified_date=1920 |beatified_place= |beatified_by=Pope Benedict XV |canonized_date=October 18, 1964 |canonized_place= |canonized_by=Pope Paul VI |attributes= |patronage=children; primary schools |major_shrine=Basilica Church of the Uganda Martyrs, Namugongo, Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine |suppressed_date= |issues= }}

'''Saint Kizito''' (1872 – June 3, 1886) also known as '''Kizito Omuto,''' was one of the Martyrs of Uganda and the youngest martyr slain by the King Mwanga II of Buganda. He was baptized on 25/26 May 1886, by Charles Lwanga, the leader of Uganda's Christian community at the time, at Munyonyo, and burned alive on 3 June 1886 in Namugongo. He was canonized on 18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI in Rome. His feast day is on June 3. He is considered as the patron saint of children and primary schools.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mubiru |first1=Charles Lwanga |title=The Uganda Martyrs and the Need for Appropriate Role Models in Adolescents' Moral Formation: As Seen from the Traditional African Education |date=2012 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-643-90142-2 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbyAH3NNAfYC&q=Mugagga+Lubowa&pg=PA130 |language=en}}</ref>

==See also== *St. Kizito, a mixed secondary school in Kenya *[https://www.stkizitocatholicschool.co.bw St Kizito Catholic School] in Botswana *[https://friendsofstkizitorubugurips.org/ Friends of St. Kiizito Rubuguri Primary School] in Uganda ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080616152202/http://saints.sqpn.com/saintk14.htm Saint Kizito] at Patron Saints Index *[https://web.archive.org/web/20161213033301/http://dacb.org/stories/uganda/kizito_.html Kizito's profile from Dictionary of African Christian Biography] *[http://www.ugandamartyrsshrine.org.ug/index.php?ID=104 Kizito's profile from UgandaMartyrsShrine.org] *[http://www.buganda.com/martyrs.htm LIST OF UGANDA MARTYRS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719024926/http://www.buganda.com/martyrs.htm |date=2014-07-19 }} *[http://wau.org/archives/article/the_uganda_martyrs/ The Uganda Martyrs from the August 2008 issue of ''The Word Among Us'' magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823174629/http://wau.org/archives/article/the_uganda_martyrs/ |date=2018-08-23 }} *[http://www.munyonyo-shrine.ug/martyrs/other-uganda-martyrs/st-kizito/ St. Kizito and his parentage.] *[https://www.famillekizito.org/ The Family Kizito in Haiti]

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