ON SAINT QUIRILLUS,
BISHOP OF MAASTRICHT ON THE MAAS IN BELGIUM.
CommentaryQuirillus, Bishop of Maastricht on the Maas (Saint)
G. H.
[1] The Church of Maastricht on the Maas, dedicated to Saint Servatius (who transferred the Episcopal See from Tongres to that city), celebrates the solemnity of all his holy Pontiffs with a double rite on March 6, Memory of the holy Bishops of Maastricht on February 6 as we then broadly deduced among the Pretermitted and those put off to other days, when we assigned to each his own proper day, and among others to Saint Quirillus this April 30: when these things are read in the Ms. Florarium of the Saints: "At upper Maastricht the deposition of Saint Quirillus, 16th Bishop of Tongres and 6th of Maastricht, who after two years, in which he had begun to rule the Church, rested in peace, in the year of salvation 539." Saint Quirillus separately April 30 But that he flourished and died in the preceding century we have shown in our Diatribe on the Bishops of Maastricht on the Maas, chapter 2.
[2] In the Belgic Chronicle (because all the Bishops from Saint Maternus are surveyed in one tenor, and although in it the See is said to have been translated from Tongres to Maastricht, yet as if they pertained to each See, so also the Tongrese name is attributed to them) is said similarly as in the Florarium Saint Quirillus 16, Bishop of Tongres and 6 of Maastricht. April 29 On the day before this or the third of the Kalends of May Saussay in the Supplement of the Gallican Martyrology has these things: "At Maastricht on the Maas the deposition of Saint Quirillus, Bishop and Confessor, illustrious for the gifts of divine grace and the merits of justice."
[3] February 17 and November 14. On the same day he is inscribed in the General Catalogue of Ferrarius. But in a certain recent writing of the Carthusians of Brussels his birthday is referred to February 17 and his translation to November 14.