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VITTORIANO, saint. - B. ca. 478, great promoter of monastic life, d. abbot of Asán, 12 Jan. 558.
The Vita of V., reassessed by Fita (who dates it to the beginning of the 8th century) and again depreciated by Lambert (who assigns it to a much later age), has him born in Italy. Cultured and wealthy, V. is said to have left his homeland to go to southern Gaul and, in 522, to Spain, spreading monasticism everywhere. It is certain that V. spent
(phot. Alinari) VITTORIA, ALESSANDRO - Stone altar with St Anthony Abbot between St Roch and St Sebastian (1561-63) - Venezia, church of S. Francesco della Vigna.60 years of his life in this kind of work, as is evident from the encomium by Venanzio Fortunato (Carmina, IV, 11; PL 88, 163-64; Vives, op. cit. in the bibliography, pp. 87-88) and from his epitaph, which compares him to the Fathers of Egyptian monasticism, Saints Paul and Anthony (Vives, op. cit., p. 88). In Spain, his principal foundation was the monastery of Asán, situated in the region of Ribagorza-Sobrarbe, in the present-day diocese of Barbastro. His relics were transferred in 1089 to the monastery of Montearagón. Feast day: 12 Jan.
BIBL.:Acta SS. Ianuarii, I, Venezia 1734, pp. 738-43; BHL, supplementum, p. 306; F. Fita, Epigrafia cristiana de España... S. Victoriano abad de Asán, in Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 37 (Madrid 1900), pp. 500-507 (cf. Anal. Boll., 20 [1901], p. 341); A. Lambert, Asan, in DHG, IV (1930), cols. 867-870; J. Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España romana y vítigoda, Barcellona 1942, pp. 87-89; Cottineau, I, cols. 169-70.
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“VITTORIANO, SANTO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 971. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/vittoriano-santo.
