Saints Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax are venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church. Their story has been called "a worthless later legend; Anatolia is not even mentioned in the Roman Martyrology." Their legend states that they were martyred during the reign of Decius. Anatolia was first mentioned in the De Laude Sanctorum composed in 396 by Victrice (Victricius), bishop of Rouen (330-409). Anatolia and Victoria are mentioned together in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum under July 10: VI idus iulii in Savinis Anatholiae Victoriae; Victoria is also mentioned alone under December 19: In Savinis civitate Tribulana Victoriae. The two saints appear in the mosaics of Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, at Ravenna, between Saints Paulina and Christina. A Passio SS. Anatoliae et Audacis et S. Victoriae of the sixth or seventh century was mentioned by Aldhelm (d. 709) and Bede (d. 735), who mention the saints in their martyrologies. Caesar Baronius lists Anatolia and Audax under July 9 and Victoria under December 23.
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