Marko Krizin

St. Marko Stjepan Krizin
Priest and martyr
Born	1589 Križevci, Kingdom of Croatia, Habsburg Empire
Died	7 September 1619 Royal free city of Kassa, Kingdom of Hungary
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church (Croatia)
Beatified	15 January 1905, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Kingdom of Italy, by Pope Pius X
Canonized	2 July 1995, Košice, Slovakia, by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Esztergom Basilica and Church of the Holy Trinity, Košice
Feast	7 September

Marko Stjepan Krizin (or Marko Križevčanin) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the struggle between Catholicism and Calvinism in the region then, he was executed for his faith. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, the third Croat to be so honored.

Krizin was born in Križevci, in the Kingdom of Croatia. He started his studies in the Jesuit college in Vienna, and then later at the University of Graz, where he became a Doctor of Philosophy.

As a candidate for Holy Orders of the Diocese of Zagreb, Krizin then moved to Rome, where he attended the famous Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum. He personally noted his nationality as Croatian in a document which is available in the college archives. As a student he was smart and considerate. He studied there from 1611 to 1615.

After ordination, Krizin returned to his diocese where he stayed only a short period. Cardinal Péter Pázmány, the Archbishop of Esztergom (then based in Nagyszombat (now called Trnava due to Ottoman occupation), called him from Zagreb and appointed him the rector of the seminary there and as a canon of the cathedral chapter.

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