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{{Infobox Saint
|name=Saint Kizito
|birth_date=1872
|death_date=June 3, 1886
|feast_day=June 3
|venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church]]
|image=Karoli Lwanga and his followers.jpg
|imagesize=
|caption=Kizito and his companions
|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
|suppressed_date=
|issues=
}}

'''Saint Kizito''' (1872 - June 3, 1886) was one of the [[Martyrs of Uganda]]. The youngest [[martyr]] slain by the King [[Mwanga II of Buganda]], he was burned alive in 1886. He was [[canonized]] on 18 October 1964 by Pope [[Paul VI]] at [[Rome]]. His [[feast day]] is on June 3.

==See also==
*[[St. Kizito]], a mixed [[secondary school]] in [[Kenya]]

==External links==
*{{findagrave|29213153}}
*[http://saints.sqpn.com/saintk14.htm Saint Kizito] at Patron Saints Index
*[http://www.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://wau.org/archives/article/the_uganda_martyrs/ The Uganda Martyrs from the August 2008 issue of ''The Word Among Us'' magazine]

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[[Category:1872 births]]
[[Category:1886 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Christian saints]]
[[Category:19th-century executions]]
[[Category:19th-century Roman Catholic martyrs]]
[[Category:Child saints]]
[[Category:Converts to Catholicism from Pagan religions]]
[[Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism]]
[[Category:Executed children]]
[[Category:Executed Ugandan people]]
[[Category:People executed by Buganda]]
[[Category:People executed by burning]]
[[Category:Ugandan Roman Catholic saints]]