Victor of Solothurn

Victor was one of the soldiers of the famous Theban legion that, under the leadership of Maurice was dispatched to put down a revolt in Gaul.

Sent to clear the Great St Bernard Pass across the Alps, they arrived at Agaunum, the present town of Sankt-Moritz in Switzerland.

[1] Otto of Freising wrote in his Chronica de duabus civitatibus that many of the legionaries escaped and only some were executed at Agaunum, and the others apprehended later and put to death both at Bonn and Köln.

[2] Victor reached Solothurn near Bern before the Roman authorities caught up with him and he was beheaded.

A relief on the front facade shows Saints Ursus and Victor refusing to worship idols.