Victor of León

Saint Victor of León was a Roman soldier, martyred at León in Spain around 304, in the time of Diocletian. Tradition counted him a son of Saint Marcellus the Centurion and a brother of Lupercus and Claudius, but nothing more is known of his existence.

His day of commemoration coincided with that of Marcellus, 30 October. In an 11th-⁠century interpolation in the Mozarabic Antiphonary of the cathedral of Toledo the names of these three saints are cited, found in the archives of Toledo. Their link with Marcellus has been regarded as apocryphal. Some think it more probable that Claudius, Lupercus and Victor were soldiers of Hispanic origin, martyrs at León, which would explain their veneration in the old kingdom of León; the coincidence of the days in the Roman Martyrology would then have produced the legend of Marcellus.

The relics of the saints were moved several times. King Ferdinand I of León placed them in the royal basilica of Saint Isidore at León. Relics of Saint Victor are also kept at Medole, in the province of Mantua, in the parish church, where they came in 1692. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.