Victrice of Rouen

Victrice , Saint and bishop of Rouen - IVe and Ve century One of the first bishops of Rouen. Friend of Holy Martin. He was missionary in the Artois and the Flanders. He organized the first rural parishes in his diocese of Rouen. He increases the small sanctuary of the city in order to accommodate many relics.

Biography

Victrice was born as a Gaulle, with the borders of the borders of the Roman Empire, a few years after the Ier council of Nicée.

In its youth, it was useful in the Roman army, but, fearing the dangers of the state in which it was engaged, it solved to give up the military career. At the time of a general review, it was presented in front of the Tribun, and stripped its weapons its involved, it declared to him that it renonçait with the service and asked him its leave. The Powerful orator, irritated this action, made tear Victrice with whiplashes and of stick, then it made it lead in prison. One drew it that to make it appear before the intendant of the army, which seemed to be come with the camps that to judge it.

Victrice declared to him that having become soldier of Jesus, he believed duty to withdraw army to serve it more freely. The intendant, not very satisfied with the answer made it torment to oblige it to take again the weapons. Seeing its useless efforts, he condemned it has to have the distinct head.

Holy Paulin, tells us that God made several miracles in order to deliver his servant. This Saint reports that the torturer who led Victrice to the torment, having put the hand on his neck, like marking the place or it was to strike, lost the sight suddenly. This accident prevented it from proceeding to its office. Victrice was renewed in prison, and god made a second miracle in his favor. One had attached to him to the hands of irons which one had tightened to the bones. He requested his guards to slacken them a little, and they transfer the chains fallen from themselves. Its guards did not dare to give them, but it ran, terrified, to tell this wonder with the intendant, who returned freedom in Victrice

One how long does not know in which place it was withdrawn, nor it passed in prayers and penitences, before being high with the episcopate towards 390. Saint Paulin saw it in Vienna in Dauphiné, and recommended itself to his prayers as with that of a man favoured of the sky and estimated holier characters of his time.

The church of Rouen, became, under Saint Victrice, a news Jerusalem, one admired there a great number of virgins worthy of Christ. Thus, the town of Rouen, which until was known little, even in the close provinces, became famous to the most moved back provinces.

It is believed that Saint Victrice died in the year 417, its tomb was the theater of miracles and the object of a great veneration.

In the middle of the IXe century, in order to protect the Holy relics from the invasions Normans, one transported them at the height Braine (close to Soissons) they will be preserved there until the French revolution. But it is only in 1865 that the Cardinal of Bonnechose, archbishop of Rouen, proceeded to the Translation of the relics of Victrice Saint.

Sources

Lives of the Saints - Turns - P/430 - 1861
Note on the translation of the relics of Holy Yved and Holy Victrice downtown of Braine - By the abbot Henri Congnet - Sulpice-Severe Paris 1865
Historiography and Saint-Paulin cheese of Nole

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