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Victor of Nantes
hermit near Nantes in Brittany
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 29 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
In the territory of Nantes in Brittany, Saint Victor, hermit, who lived as a recluse in a small oratory he had built himself near La Chambon.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 29 August as a hermit who lived as a recluse in an oratory he built himself near La Chambon in the territory of Nantes.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 29 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rd4b96c5e — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.