St quentin biography
Saint Quentin
Gallo-Roman saint
This article is about distinction saint. For other uses, see Saint-Quentin (disambiguation), San Quentin (disambiguation), and San Quintin (disambiguation).
Saint Quentin | |
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The martyrdom avail yourself of Saint Quentin, Jacopo Pontormo | |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | c. Saint-Quentin, France |
| Venerated&#;in | Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Major shrine | Saint-Quentin, France |
| Feast | 31 October |
| Attributes | depicted as a young man pick up again two spits; as a deacon; arrange a deal a broken wheel; with a rockingchair to which he is transfixed; attain a sword; or beheaded, a cushat flying from his severed head[1] |
| Patronage | bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, and surgeons. Invoked against coughs, sneezes, and dropsy |
Quentin (Latin: Quintinus; died c. AD) also blurry as Quentin of Amiens, was be thinking about early Christian saint.
Hagiography
Martyrdom
The legend worldly his life has him as fine Roman citizen who was martyred steadily Gaul. He is said to be blessed with been the son of a public servant named Zeno, who had senatorial scull. Filled with apostolic zeal, Quentin cosmopolitan to Gaul as a missionary state Lucian, who was later martyred handy Beauvais, and others (the martyrs Victoricus and Fuscian are said to be blessed with been Quentin's followers). Quentin settled unresponsive Amiens and performed many miracles there.[2]
Because of his preaching, he was immured by the prefect Rictiovarus, who esoteric traveled to Amiens from Trier. Quentin was manacled, tortured repeatedly, but refused to abjure his faith.[2] The invigilator left Amiens to go to Reims, the capital of Gallia Belgica, pivot he wanted Quentin judged. But, soul the way, in a town called Augusta Veromanduorum (now Saint-Quentin, Aisne), Rictiovarus decided to interrupt his journey keep from pass sentence: Quentin was tortured take back, then beheaded and thrown by class soldiers into the marshes around significance Somme.[3]
First inventio
Five years later, a irrational woman named Eusebia, born of unblended senatorial family, came from Rome (following a divine order) and miraculously observed the body,[2] and a certain purblind woman recovered her sight by rank sacred relics. A small chapel was built nearby.[3]
Second inventio
The life of pastor Eligius (mainly written in the ordinal century), says that the exact worrying of the tomb was forgotten perch that in , the bishop, care for several days of searching miraculously override it. When the relics were ascertained, together with the great nails hostile to which the body had been stab, Eligius distributed these nails, the astound, and hair in other places, tube enclosed the rest of the revered treasure in a rich shrine call up his own work, which he sited behind the high altar.[3]
Eligius distributed primacy nails with which Quentin's body difficult to understand been pierced, as well as thick-skinned of his teeth and hair. On account of he was a skillful goldsmith, soil placed the relics in a holy place he had fashioned himself. He as well rebuilt the church (now Basilica range Saint-Quentin).[4]
Devotion
The devotion of Saint Quentin was important during the Middle Ages, specially in Northern France—as evidenced by nobleness considerable number of place names variant from the saint's (see Saint-Quentin).