Victor of Marseilles

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Victor of Marseilles
birth_date=3rd centuryAD
death_date=c. 290 AD
feast_day=July 21
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church


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death_place=Marseille
titles=Martyr
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attributes=Depicted as a Roman soldier with a millstone; depicted overthrowing a statue of Jupiter; in stocks, comforted by angels; scourged and crushed by a millstone; or with his body beheaded and flung into the river, from which the angels take it [ [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0721.htm Saints of July 21 ] ] ; depicted with windmill
patronage= cabinetmakers, millers, torture victims, sick children; invoked against lightning [ [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0721.htm Saints of July 21 ] ]
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Saint Victor of Marseilles was a Christian Martyr. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Saint Victor is said to have been a Roman army officer in Marseilles, who publicly denounced the worship of idols. For that, he was brought before the Roman prefects, Asterius and Eutychius, who later sent him to the Emperor Maximian. He was then racked, beaten, dragged through the streets, and thrown into prison, where he converted three other Roman soldiers (Sts Longinus, Alexander, and Felician, all of whom are considered Christian martyrs). The three were beheaded, and St Victor himself was crushed under a millstone and then beheaded, after refusing to offer incense to the Roman god Jupiter.

Veneration

In the 4th century, Saint John Cassian built a monastery over the site where the bodies had been buried in a cave, which later became a Benedictine Abbey and minor Basilica. This is St Victor's Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Victor).

Saint Victor's feast day is celebrated on July 21.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0721.htm Saints of July 21: Victor of Marseilles]
* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv12.htm Victor of Marseilles]