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Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D'Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Painting
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hortly afterwards and buried by theChristians. Above their grave arose in the fifth century thecelebrated monastery of St. Victor, the church of which, oneof the oldest in France, still remains. Part of the relics ofSt. Victor were later taken to Paris, where a little chapel wasbuilt to receive them, and in the reign of Louis VI. wasfounded the celebrated community of Canons of St. Victor,the arms of which consisted of a wheel, in allusion to themartyrdom of the young soldier, some writers speaking of hishaving been torn to pieces on a kind of wheel, not crushedbeneath a millstone. St. Victor of Marseilles is generally represented in thearmour of a Roman soldier, and occasionally he appears onhorseback with a standard in his hand. More often he is onfoot with a millstone on the ground beside him, and Frenchimage-makers place a model of a mill in his hand. In one ofthe windows of the Cathedral of Strasburg he is introduced inthe chain armour and with the shield and spurs of a mediaeval
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Lombardi photo) (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena ST. VICTORBy Sodoma To face p. 74 ST. VICTOR OF MILAN 75 knight, and examples occur of a dragon appearing at hisfeet, but this is probably symbolic only of his victory overtemptation. An overturned altar is another symbol by whichSt. Victor of Marseilles may be identified, and he is sometimesgrouped with the gaolers who shared his fate. St. Victor of Milan was also a soldier of the Roman army,and was born in Mauritania, hence the name sometimes givento him of the Moor. When in garrison at Milan in 303 a.d.,he was denounced as a Christian, and, scorxting to deny hisfaith, he was condemned to be put to the torture and be-headed. It is related that, after he had been stretched on therack for hours, burning lead was poured over him, and for thisreason he is sometimes represented standing near a fieryfurnace. When life was extinct, his body was flung outsidethe city to be devoured by wild beasts, but two lions are saidto have protected it from injur

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