ON ST. Quintus
From the Menaea of the Ambrosian library.
Under Aurelian.
CommentaryQuintinus, Martyr in Phrygia (St.)
J. P.
That this glorious champion of Christ, St. Quintus, illustrated the province of Phrygia by the labors endured for Christ, is sufficiently ascertained from what follows; but what tract of that same province, what place or city, he graced by his merits and virtues, is not so easy to define. The Menaea of the Ambrosian library briefly describe the contest of St. Quintus the martyr to this effect on the second day of July: The passion of the holy martyr Quintus in Phrygia. He was under the emperor Aurelian, and the governor Rufus. Who, when he was possessed by a demon, was freed by the prayers of the Saint. But an earthquake having arisen, the temple collapsing, and the images being ground to pieces, he is seized by another governor, whose name was Clearchus, vehemently attached to the idols. And without delay, he broke the Saint's legs; which, Christ's grace healing them, were made whole. But in the tenth running year, in which the Saint went about, healing every disease and every infirmity, and also succoring the poor, he departed to the Lord. But since Aurelian began to take up the reins of empire in the year of Christ 270, you will now easily determine the age of the holy Martyr Quintus. Our Martyr is both in the printed Menaea, and in their Supplement from the Synaxary of Sirmond and Chifflet, in which he is said to have wrought many miracles. "His legs being crushed, Quintus is made strong again; yet he shall bear a garland, even overwhelmed by a common end." Your legs broken, Quintus, you become strong once more; you shall bear a garland, though buried by a common end.