Saint Victor Maurus
- Also known as
- Victor the Moor
- Memorial
- 8 May
- Profile
- Soldier in the Roman Praetorian Guard.
Christian from his youth, living in quiet praise of God.
Around 303, the elderly Victor was arrested in Milan 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;
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
- Varese, Italy
- Representation
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man being thrown into a furnace
man roasted in a bronze bull
man roasted in an oven
Moorish soldier trampling on a broken altar
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