VITTORIA, saint, martyr. - She is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on 19 Dec.; 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 (now 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 the many churches dedicated to her and by topographical indications (I. Schuster, Le ss. Anatolia e V. BOLLA. diocesano di Sabina, 1917, p. 163 sgg.). Her image is found in the mosaic of S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna beside that of Anatolia, with whom she is commemorated in the Mart. geronimiano on 10 July. 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 sg., 308 sg., 449-51), is rather legendary and modelled upon other similar accounts.