Victor of Capua

Saint

Victor of Capua
Died554
Venerated inCatholic Church
FeastOctober 17

Victor of Capua (Latin: Victor Capuanus, died 554) was a sixth-century bishop of Capua in Italy.

Biography

Very little is known about Victor's life. He became bishop of Capua in February 541 and held the position until his death in April 554. His feast in the Roman Martyrology is on 17 October.[1][2]

Works

Pages 296–297 of the Codex Fuldensis

Victor's best known work is the Codex Fuldensis, which was written between 541 and 546 while he was bishop of Capua. The codex is an early manuscript of the Vulgate, and it contains the entirety of the New Testament as well as the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans in a style imitative of Tatian's Diatessaron.[3]

Other works include several commentaries on the Old and New Testament as well and a work on the Paschal Cycle which was praised and quoted in fragments by Bede. Victor also authored analyses of the genealogy of Jesus and Noah's Ark, all of which are lost.[2]

He dedicated a codification of the order of pericopes in a lectionary was dedicated to Constantius of Aquino.[4]

References

  1. ^ Patrick Healy (1913). "Victor of Capua" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ a b Daniel, F. H. Blackburne (1911). "Victor, bishop of Capua". In Wace, Henry (ed.). Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century..
  3. ^ Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 106–108. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
  4. ^ Holzherr, Georg. The Rule of Benedict: An Invitation to the Christian Life, Liturgical Press, 2016, p. li, n.106 ISBN 9780879077341