Viktor of Xanten

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name= Saint Victor of Xanten
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death_date=4th century
feast_day= October 10
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church


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major_shrine= Xanten Cathedral
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Victor of Xanten or Saint Victor is a martyr and saint of the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church. His presumed bones are kept in a shrine since the 12th century that today is embedded into the high altar of the Xanten Cathedral. His feast day is October 10.

Tradition states that Victor was a Praefectus cohortis of a Cohort of the Theban Legion. He was closely associated with Ursus of Solothurn, and is said to have been a relative of Saint Verena. He was executed in the 4th century in the amphitheater of "Castra Vetera" (the site of present-day Xanten) for refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods.

References

*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/v/victor_v_xa.shtml Viktor von Xanten]
*nl icon [http://www.heiligen.net/okt/frm1010a.htm H.Victor van Xanten, martelaar]
*German|Viktor von Xanten|2007-01-02