07 works, Today, August 26th, is Saint Victor’s day, his story illustrated #238

Henry Zaidan
1 min readAug 26, 2020

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Archimandrite Cyprian
Holy Martyr Victor

Russian Icon
4.1″ x 6″
Private collection

Martyr Victor of Milan, also Victor the Moor and Victor Maurus, was a Christian soldier in the Roman army who was tortured and beheaded in the early fourth century after his destruction of altars to Roman pagan gods revealed his Christian faith…

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Henry Zaidan
Henry Zaidan

Written by Henry Zaidan

In my Blog is an Online collection of significant paintings from the 1st century to today; complete with art-history and artist bibliographies.

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