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Saint Victricius

Bishop
Born	~330 AD
Died	~407 AD
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized	pre-congregation
Feast	August 7

Victricius (French: Victrice; Italian: Vittricio) also known as Victricius of Rouen (c. 330 – c. 407 AD) was a bishop of Rouen (393–407), missionary, and author. His feast day is August 7.

Life

Victricius was Gallic by birth, the son of a Roman legionnaire. He also became a soldier and was posted to various locations around Gaul.^[1] However, when he became a Christian, he refused to remain in the army. He was flogged and sentenced to death, but managed to avoid execution. He proselytized amongst the tribes of Flanders, Hainault, and Brabant. He became bishop of Rouen around 386 or 393.

He was accused of heresy but was defended by Pope Innocent I and received from Innocent the important decretal of the Liber Regularum.

De Laude Sanctorum

In 396, Ambrose of Milan sent Victricius (as well as Paulinus of Nola and others) some relics of Vitalis and Agricola.^[2] Victricius wrote a sermon, De Laude Sanctorum (On the Praise of the Saints), celebrating the arrival of the relics from Italy.^[3] He mentions that he had been away from Rouen (396), as he had been requested to travel to Britain to help resolve some doctrinal issues. Victricius describes Britain as a wild and hostile place dealing with paganism and heresy in contrast with Italy with its abundance of holy sites and relics of martyrs.^[1]

Victricius welcomes the arriving relics and names the (relics of) saints who are already present in Rouen: John the Baptist, Andrew, Thomas, Gervasius and Protasius, Agricola, and Euphemia.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Villazala, David Natal. "Symbolic Territories: Relic Translation and Aristocratic Competition in Victricius of Rouen", Society for Classical Studies
^ Meier, Gabriel. "Sts. Vitalis and Agricola." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 21 April 2019. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Victricius, Saint, and Gillian Clark. "Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 7 no. 3, 1999, p. 365-399. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.1999.0071
^ Tycner, Marta. "Victricius of Rouen", The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, University of Oxford

Bibliography

Gillian Clark, "Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints (Introduction and annotated translation)," Journal of Early Christian Studies, 7 (1999), 365–399; = in Eadem, Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Farnham; Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2011) (Variorum collected studies series, CS978), art. XII.
Gillian Clark, "Translating relics: Victricius of Rouen and fourth-century debate," Early Medieval Europe, 10 (2001), 161–176; in Eadem, Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Farnham; Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2011) (Variorum collected studies series, CS978), art. XIII.

External links

Catholic Online: St. Victricius
Kirsten Groß-Albenhausen (1997). "Victricius, Bischof von Rouen". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 12. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1359–1362. ISBN 3-88309-068-9.
(in French) Saint Victrice

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