Solutor

Holy Martyr Solutor, together with Octavius and Adventor, is the patron saint of Turin; he died around the year 284.

Historical news of them is sparse: their memory is preserved because the three are mentioned in a sermon of Maximus of Turin, who gives no precise references of place or time. The legend says that they were soldiers of the Theban Legion. When the legion's leader, Saint Maurice, was killed at Agaunum with many soldiers, they escaped. Adventor and Octavius were caught at the Dora Riparia and killed there; Solutor was killed at a quarry by the Dora Baltea, near Caravino. A lady of Ivrea gathered their bodies in a quadriga and carried them to Turin.

In 490 Victor, bishop of Turin, enlarged the church that housed their relics. In 1006 Bishop Gezo founded the monastery of San Solutore in the city. The relics of the three, together with those of Saint Juliana and of Gozzelinus, the second abbot, were moved to the sanctuary of the Consolata after Francis I of France ordered San Solutore demolished. His commemoration is kept on 20 December. Another Solutor died at Ravenna around 305, with Valentine and Victor. Solutor of Turin is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the Catholic Church, without synodal canonization.