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Sigismund was a student of bishop Saint Avitus Of Vienne , the Catholic bishop of Vienne who converted Sigismund from the Arian faith of his Burgundian forebears. Sigismund was inspired to found a monastery dedicated to Saint Maurice at Agaune in Valais in 515 . The following year he became king of the Burgundians. The , and insulted his new wife, Sigismund had him strangled. Then, overcome with remorse, Sigismund retreated to the monastery that he had founded. In 523 , he led the Burgundians against the invading Franks of Childebert I , Clotaire I and Theodebert I . Though he put on a monk's habit and hid in a cell near his abbey, he was captured by Clotaire, taken to Orléans and put to death. Afterwards, he was honoured by the Burgundians as a Martyr . His bones were recovered from the well at Columelle where his body had been thrown, and a shrine developed near Agaune. Eventually Sigismund was Canonized . Correspondence has survived between Avitus, who was a poet and one of the last masters of the classical arts, and Sigismund. In the 14th Century , Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor , transferred Sigismund's Relics to Prague , hence he has become a Patron Saint of the Czech Republic .
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