Victor of Marseilles
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{{Infobox Saint
|name=Saint Victor of Marseilles
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|death_date=c. [[290]] [[AD]]
|feast_day=[[July 21]]
|venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church]]<br>[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]
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|death_place=[[Marseille]]
|titles=Martyr
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|attributes=[[Christian martyrs|Martyr]]; 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<ref>[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0721.htm Saints of July 21<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>; depicted with windmill
|patronage= cabinetmakers, millers, torture victims, sick children; invoked against lightning<ref>[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0721.htm Saints of July 21<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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'''Saint Victor of Marseilles''' <!-- (died ca. 304) -hide this as it conflicts with the box and the category --> was a [[Christian]] [[martyr]]. He is [[veneration|venerated]] as a saint in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].
St. Victor is said to have been a [[Roman army]] officer in [[Marseilles]], who publicly denounced the worship of [[Cult image|idols]]. For that, he was brought before the Roman [[prefect]]s, 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 [[decapitation|beheaded]], and St. Victor himself was crushed under a [[millstone]] and then [[decapitation|beheaded]], after refusing to offer [[incense]] to the [[pagan]] god [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]].
==Veneration==
[[Image:Abbaye Saint-Victor (Marseille).jpg|thumb|150px|right|Abbaye Saint-Victor]]
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, Marseille|St. Victor's Abbey]] (Abbaye Saint-Victor).
St. Victor's [[feast day]] is [[July 21]].
==Notes==
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==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]
[[Category:3rd century births]]
[[Category:290 deaths]]
[[Category:Christian martyrs of the Roman era|Victor of Marseilles]]
[[Category:French saints|Victor of Marseilles]]
[[Category:Marseille|Victor of Marseilles]]
[[nl:Victor van Marseille]]