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A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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April 19 · Martyrs

Sts. Victor

Sts. Victor, Zoticus and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

April 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 8
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Some of these martyrs on April x8th, the rest on the 19th, in the Menology of the Emperor Basil Porphyrogenitus, but all the rest on the 20th, in the Mensea. Inserted in the Modem Roman Martyrology, and by Tamayus Salazar in his Spanish Martyrology, on the authority of that notorious forgery, the Pseudo-Dexter. The forger of this Chronicle, Hieron. Romanus de Higuera, S. J. at the end of the 16th cent, made all these martyrs suffer at Sanguessa, in N. Spain, on the river Arugnon. j [AINTS VICTOR, ZOTICUS, ACINDYNUS, ZENO, C^ESARIUS, SEVERIAN, CHRISTOPHER, THEONAS, AND ANTONINUS, are the names of certain men who saw S. George undergo his various tortures, and filled with astonishment, confessed Christ, and were condemned to execution by the sword. The authority for these is the Greek Mensea and Menology, resting on the fabulous Greek Acts of S. George.

Feast days

Feast: May 8
Traditional: April 19

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Victor's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.