Victor of Tunnuna
priest and chronicler
Victor of Tunnuna (Latin Victor Tunnunensis) (died c. 570) was Bishop of the North African town of Tunnuna and a chronicler from Late antiquity. He was also considered a martyr by Isidore of Seville.
Victor supported of the Three Chapters and the endangered Chalcedonian Orthodoxy against the religious policies of Justinian I. He was punished with imprisonment within a monastery in Mandracium, then exiled to the Balearic Islands. The prisoner was eventually transferred to Canopus. In the mid-560s, Justin II imprisoned Victor in Constantinople itself. He is thought to have died while still confined within a monastery in Constantinople.
Life
The only source on Victor's life is his own chronicle. Victor was a staunch supporter of the Three Chapters which had been condemned by Justinian's edict of 544, and on this account he was arrested. His unrestrained emotions and vivid allegiance to his defense of the endangered Chalcedonian Orthodoxy showed his willingness to refuse the emperor's demands. He was relentlessly critical of those who submitted to the emperor and refused to withstand persecution for their stance on the Three Chapters.
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