Saint Victor Maurus

Also known as

• Victor the Moor
• Viktor
• Vittore
• Vittorio

Memorial

• 8 May

Profile

Soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard. A Christian from his youth, Victor lived in quiet praise of God. Around 303, the elderly Victor was arrested in Milan, Italy in the persecutions of Maximian. He was tortured for his faith, basted in molten lead, and killed. Martyr. Saint Gregory of Tours wrote of miracles that occurred at Victor’s grave.

Born

• 3rd century in Mauretania, Africa

Died

• beheaded c.303
• buried outside Milan, Italy
• a church was later erected over the grave
• relics translated in 1576 to an Olivetan church dedicated to him in Milan

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Asigliano, Italy
• Balangero, Italy
• Borghetto, Italy
• Canale, Italy
• Caselle Torinese, Italy
• Feletto, Italy
• Odolengo, Italy
• Quagliuzzo, Italy
• Rho, Italy
• San Vittore Olona, Italy
• Varese, Italy
• Verbania, Italy

Representation

• man being thrown into a furnace
• man roasted in a bronze bull
• man roasted in an oven
• Moorish soldier trampling on a broken pagan altar

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology

MLA Citation

• “Saint Victor Maurus“. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 May 2013. Web. 23 May 2013. <>