VICTORIA, Saint, Martyr. - She is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on December 19; in the Roman Martyrology, however, according to the indication of the Passio, on the 23rd of the same month.

Her tomb was located near Trebula Mutuesca (today Monteleone Sabino), about 65 km from Rome on the Via Salaria. She was greatly venerated in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, as attested by many churches dedicated to her and by topographical indications (I. Schuster, Le ss. Anatolia e V. in Boll. diocesano di Sabina, 1917, p. 163 ff.). Her image is found in the mosaic of S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna beside that of Anatolia, with whom she is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on July 10. Around 934 her body was transferred to the monastery of Monte Matenano near Fermo. The Passio, probably written in the 5th-6th century, and already known to Aldhelm (MGH, Auct. Antiquiss., XV, pp. 248 f., 308 f., 449-51), is rather legendary and modeled on other similar ones.

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BIBL.: the text of the Passio in Anal. Boll., 2 (1883), pp. 157-160; P. Paschini, La Passio delle martiri sabine V. e Anatolia (Lateranum, 1), Rome 1919; Lanzoni, pp. 347-50; Martyr. Hieronymianum, pp. 264, 653 f.; H. Delahaye, Les orig. du culte des martyrs, Brussels 1933, pp. 314, 327; id., Etude sur le légendier romain, ibid. 1936, p. 60; Martyr. Romanum, p. 397.

Agostino Amore

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