Viktor of Xanten

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==
* Viktor von Xanten
* H.Victor van Xanten, martelaar
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Category:4th-century deaths
Category:Egyptian saints
Category:Egyptian Roman Catholic saints
Category:Eastern Orthodox saints
Category:German Roman Catholic saints
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