Basilica di San Vittore al Corpo
Renaissance basilica atop a Roman mausoleum, holding the intact relics of a beheaded soldier-martyr.
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This guide to the Basilica di San Vittore al Corpo in Milan opens with the legend of Victor, a soldier in Emperor Maximian's guard posted here around the year 300, who refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods and was whipped, imprisoned, and eventually beheaded in a wood outside the city walls. It follows how his body was recovered and buried intact on this spot, then how his relics later traveled the city, moved by Bishop Ambrose in the fourth century and reclaimed by Cardinal Charles Borromeo in 1576, who sealed them into this basilica's altar.
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