Acta Sanctorum

Eno und Quirio

13 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
Sts. Eno and Quirio are obscure Roman martyrs attested by the manuscript Martyrology of St. Jerome and the Florarium. Quirio is said to have suffered at Rome under Gallienus around A.D. 263, possibly in connection with the Forty Soldiers. 3rd century

ON THE HOLY MARTYRS ENO AND QUIRIO.

Commentary

Eno, Martyr (St.) Quirio, Martyr (St.)

Two manuscripts have given us these holy Martyrs: first the very ancient manuscript of St. Jerome in these words: "And elsewhere, of Quosquonius, of Eno." What that "Quosquonius" means, however, we do not understand. The manuscript Florarium explains the matter after a fashion: "At Rome," it says, "of St. Quirio, and of forty others, under the Emperor Gallienus, in the year of salvation 263, the fifth year of the eighth persecution." About these forty we have already spoken. Quirio is said in this manuscript to have suffered at Rome; in the earlier one, only "elsewhere" is given; but it had previously treated of those who suffered on the Via Lavicana. The matter is obscure.