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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Victor of Gauna

Saint honored at Gauna in the Basque Country; the sources preserve few details about him.

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Era
unknown
Place
Elorriaga

Life

Victor of Gauna, also called Victor the Ploughman (San Bitor in Basque), is a supposed hermit saint of Álava in the Basque Country. Very little is known of him, and the story may be legendary and mixed with those of other saints. By tradition he was a ploughman of Elorriaga who retired to the old hermitage of San Bernabé near Gauna. His veneration is attested from the middle of the eleventh century; in 1587 his body is said to have been found incorrupt, and his skull is kept in a baroque silver reliquary. Water passed through the skull is used to bless fields and cure ailments of the head. Since 1924 he has been patron of the Deportivo Alavés club.