Editing Pope Victor III (section)

== Posthumous legacy ==
[[File:Vicente Carducho. "Visión del papa Víctor III" (1626-1632), Cartuja del Paular-Museo del Prado.jpg|thumb|[[Vincenzo Carducci]] ''The Vision of Pope Victor III'' (1626–1632)]]
The cult of Blessed Victor III seems to have begun not later than the pontificate of [[Pope Anastasius IV]], about six decades after his death (Acta Sanctorum, Loc. cit.). In 1515, Victor III's body was relocated to the main abbey church in Monte Cassino with many pilgrims visiting his tomb. In 1727 the abbot of Monte Cassino obtained from [[Pope Benedict XIII]] permission to keep his feast (Tosti, I, 393). [[Pope Leo XIII]] beatified Victor III in 1887, at which point his body was once again [[translation (relics)|moved]] to the Chapel of St. Victor.

During World War II, his body was removed and placed in Rome for safekeeping. The main abbey at Monte Cassino was destroyed in February 1944 by US bombing. Victor's body was moved back to the rebuilt abbey in 1963.