Their legend states that Victor was a Roman soldier of Italian ancestry, who was tortured, including having his eyes gouged out, and was beheaded.

They may have been martyred during the reign of Antoninus Pius, or Diocletian, while the Roman Martyrology states that it was in the third century when they met their death.

[1] While he was suffering from the tortures, the sixteen-year-old wife of another soldier, named Corona or Stephanie (or Stefania or Stephana, from Greek στέφᾰνος, stéphanos, "crown", the Greek version of her Latin name, which also means "crown")[2][3][4] comforted and encouraged him.

Outside the town of Feltre in northern Italy, on the slopes of Mount Miesna, is the church of SS.

[7] Around 1000 AD Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor brought Corona's relics to Aachen in western Germany.