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Saint Victoria (disambiguation) Saint Victoria may refer to:
* Victoria of Albitina (feast day: February 11)
* Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax (feast day: December 23)
*Victoria, 1st-century martyr (see Saint Edistus)
*Victoria, 4th-century martyr, sister of Saint Acisclus
*Victo ...
for other saints with this name.''
Saint Victoria (died 304 AD) is venerated as a
martyr and
saint
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by the
Catholic Church. Her
legend states that she was of the
North African nobility and refused an
arranged marriage
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(a story told also of
another Saint Victoria). On her
wedding day, she leaped from a window in her parents' house. Arrested for her faith, Victoria argued with the judge at her trial, who was willing to release her. She was executed with forty-five other parishioners. Names from this group include Thelica, Ampelius, Emeritus, and Rogatian.
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A priest named Saturninus was also killed with his children: Saturninus and Felix, readers, Mary, a virgin, and Hilarion, a young child.
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Victoria of Albitina
Roman saints from Africa (continent)
304 deaths
4th-century Christian martyrs
4th-century Roman women
4th-century Christian saints
Year of birth unknown
Late Ancient Christian female saints
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