St. Victorinus

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 5 · Priest, Martyr

St. Victorinus

St. Victorinus

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 5
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

November 2
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Priest
Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 5 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Ado, Usuardus, Notker on Jan. 8, give S. Severinus brother of S. Victorinus, confounding together two saints of the name of Severinus. So also on Sept. 5, they confound together two of the name of Victorinus. TheSeverin5 confused together are the Norican apostle who died a.d. 481, and a bishop of San Severino, who died about a.d. 560. The brother of this latter, Victorinus, was a hermit who fell into the sin of incontinence, but repented, and is commemorated on June 8. The other Victorinus is inserted on this day in the Roman and other Martyrologies as Bishop and Martyr. His acts are from those of SS. Nereus and Achilles, and are of no value historically.] jlCTORINUS is said to have been a priest who was elected to the bishopric of Amiternum; but this is a confusion. There was perhaps a bishop of the same name at Amiternum much later, with whom this martyr has been confounded. This saint is said to have suffered martyrdom by being hung, head downwards, over the sulphurous exhalations of the waters of the Lago di Contigliano, near Rieti.

Feast days

Feast: November 2
Traditional: September 5

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Victorinus (cropped).jpg · Jakob Brollo · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Jakob Brollo, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.