Victor of Chalcedon

Saint Victor the Martyr of Chalcedon was a soldier, martyred at Chalcedon about 304, together with Sosthenes, in connection with the life of Saint Euphemia. He is venerated as a holy martyr. The Orthodox Church commemorates him, according to the Russian source, on 29 September, and the Western Church on 10 September.

According to the life of Saint Euphemia the All-⁠Praised, about 304 the governor of Chalcedon, the tormentor Priscus, ordered the soldiers Victor and Sosthenes to throw the saint into a red-⁠hot furnace. Then holy angels appeared to them in the flames, after which they refused to carry out the order, declaring that they had believed in the God whom Euphemia worshipped. Boldly confessing themselves Christians, Victor and Sosthenes went to torments and were given to be torn apart by wild beasts. Praying for the mercy of God, that they be received into the Kingdom of Heaven, they heard a voice from heaven and passed into eternal life. The beasts did not even touch their bodies. A Serbian source says that the beasts did not rush at them, but that they were afterward put to death.

Some of his relics are kept, together with those of Saint Euphemia and Saint Sosthenes, in the basilica of Saint Euphemia at Piacenza; and at Irsina are parts of the relics of the holy martyrs of Chalcedon Euphemia, Victor and Sosthenes.