Feast August 7 Name Victricius Victricius | Role Saint Died 407 AD | |
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Saint Victricius (French: Victrice; Italian: Vittricio) also known as Victricius of Rouen (c. 330 – c. 407 AD) was a bishop of Rouen (393–407), missionary, and author. His feast day is August 7. Victricius was the son of a Roman legionnaire, and was in the army himself as an officer; however, when he became a Christian, he refused to remain in the army. He was flogged and sentenced to death, but managed to avoid execution. He proselytized amongst the tribes of Flanders, Hainault, and Brabant.
He became bishop of Rouen around 386 or 393. He was invited to Britain in 396 to assist in the settlement of some dispute among the bishops there. He was accused of heresy but was defended by Pope Innocent I and received from Innocent the important decretal of the Liber Regularum.
In 396, relics of Vitalis and Agricola were sent to Victricius, and about the same date to St. Paulinus of Nola and others.
Victricius wrote a work De Laude Sanctorum (On the Praise of the Saints).