Anatolia and Victoria were sisters of a wealthy Roman patrician family, raised as Christians in Rome around AD 230–250. Their father, by Roman custom, betrothed both daughters in arranged marriage to pagan Roman nobles — Anatolia to a young noble named Aurelius, Victoria to Eugenius. Both sisters had privately vowed virginity to Christ and resisted the marriages.
According to the surviving Acts of their martyrdom, Victoria initially yielded to her father's pressure and was actually married to Eugenius. After the wedding, she persuaded her sister Anatolia to also accept marriage to Aurelius. Anatolia agreed only if Victoria first persuaded her own husband Eugenius to consent to a chaste marriage; Victoria did so successfully. Anatolia then attempted the same with Aurelius — but Aurelius refused and, infuriated, denounced both sisters to the Roman magistrates as Christians during the Decian persecution.
The sisters were separated: Anatolia was sent into exile at Tora di Sangiovanni (Latin Tora) in the Sabine Hills east of Rome; Victoria to Trebula Mutuesca (modern Monteleone Sabino) in the same region. At Tora, Anatolia was successful in converting many of her exile-village neighbours to Christianity, which led the local magistrate to have her killed by a slave named Audax who had been ordered to do so but who was himself converted at the moment of carrying out the execution. Victoria, at Trebula, was first imprisoned in a small temple where she preached so successfully that her keepers converted, and was finally killed by being stabbed in the heart. Their cult is particularly strong in the Sabina region of Lazio.