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Martyr

Victorinus of Albano

One of the Four Crowned Martyrs, who suffered at Albano near Rome.

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Feast
August 8old style August 21
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Victorinus of Albano is one of the Four Crowned Martyrs, soldiers (clerks) said to have refused to sacrifice to the god Aesculapius and to have been put to death by order of Diocletian at Albano near Rome; the group is made up of Severus or Secundus, Severian, Carpophorus and Victorinus. Their names were not known at their death and were learned later, which is why they were called the Crowned Ones. They were buried on the Via Labicana, in the cemetery of Saints Marcellinus and Peter. Commemoration on 8 August by the Roman calendar (new style); the Orthodox keep them on 8 November.

Commemorated the same day August 8