Saint Victor Abbey. Marseille

We live 30 seconds from l'Abbaye Saint Victor. I just stopped by and took a few pictures.

St. victor’s Abbey is a late Roman former monastic foundation, named after the local soldier saint and martyr, Saint Victor.

Saint Victor is said to have been a Roman army officer in Marseilles, who publicly denounced the worship of idols. For that, he was brought before the Roman prefects, Asterius and Eutychius, who later sent him to the Emperor Maximian. He was then racked, beaten, dragged through the streets, and thrown into prison, where he converted three other Roman soldiers. The three were beheaded, and St Victor himself was crushed under a millstone and then beheaded, after refusing to offer incense to the Roman god Jupiter. You just couldn't think out of the box back then or else...

In the 4^th century, Saint John Cassian built this monastery over the site where the bodies had been buried in a cave.

The belts were ringing so I had to zoom on them...

This is the view standing in front of l'Abbaye Saint Victor, le vieux port.