Victorinus of Pettau
Victorinus of Pettau | |
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Victorinus on a fresco in the parish church of Nova Cerkev (Slovenia) | |
| Bishop of Poetovio and Martyr | |
| Born | Likely in Roman Greece |
| Died | 303 or 304 AD Ptuj (Pettau or Poetovio) |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 2 November |
| Attributes | Palm, pontifical vestments |
Saint Victorinus of Pettau (also Ptuj or Poetovio; Greek: Βικτωρίνος Πεταβίου; died 303 or 304) was an Early Christian ecclesiastical writer who flourished about 270, and who was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian. A Bishop of Poetovio (modern Ptuj in Slovenia; German: Pettau) in Pannonia, Victorinus is also known as Victorinus Petavionensis or Poetovionensis. Victorinus composed commentaries on various texts within the Christians' Holy Scriptures.