Saint Victor of Damascus

Irritated by this response, Sebastian ordered that his fingers be broken, and that the joints, once laid bare, be torn from the skin; and finally, he had him thrown into a burning furnace, from which Victor, after remaining there for three days, emerged without the slightest harm. After being forced, on several occasions, to eat poisoned food, he took it with impunity, and even converted to the faith of Christ the one who had prepared the poison. But the fury of the executioners did not stop there. By a new kind of cruelty, they tore the nerves from his body and poured boiling oil over his limbs; they brought flaming torches to his suspended body; they poured a mixture of vinegar and lime into his mouth; they gouged out his eyes; they left him hanging by his feet, head downward, for three days: and, as the Martyr, far from being shaken by so many tortures, did not even seem to feel them, he was flayed alive and left all bloody, truly Victor, that is to say, conqueror, since he had triumphed, by the power of God , over Victor Roman soldier and Christian martyr of the 2nd century. the weakness of nature, the rage of demons, and the cruelty of the impious.

A young woman of sixteen years, named Corona, Couronne A young woman martyred alongside Saint Victor. and married to a soldier, having admired the constancy of Victor, could not help but praise him highly, moved by the spirit of God: at the same time, she declared publicly that she was a Christian, affirming that she saw two crowns descending from heaven, one for Victor and the other for herself, and that she was fully prepared to merit it through a beautiful death. Therefore, having been arrested and summoned to sacrifice to the gods, as she would not consent to it, she was tied with ropes to the branches of two trees bent toward one another with effort, and these trees being suddenly released, and returning to their original position, the body of the young woman was torn into two parts. As for Victor, he was finally struck by the axe, after having made several predictions that were fulfilled. The heads of these two illustrious Martyrs were piously preserved in the cathedral of Dijon before the R Dijon City where the relics were temporarily hidden and disputed. evolution. In the year 1286, on a Sunday, the day after the feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle, Wil liam, Bis Guillaume Bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône in the 13th century. hop of Chalo n-sur-Saône, in Châlon-sur-Saône Site of the saint's martyrdom. the said church, performed the elevation of the head of Saint Corona and several other relics.

The heads of our two Martyrs were carried one after the other in the Rogation proces sions, on Rogations Public prayers and processions established to avert calamities. Tuesday and Wednesday, to ward off bad weather.

Ancient proper of Dijon.