ON ST. QUINTIANUS THE PRIEST,
AND SICIUS OR TITUS, CONFESSORS.
Notice from the Martyrology of Usuard?
Quintianus the Priest, Confessor (St.) Sicius or Titus, Confessor (St.)
G. H.
[1] The ancient Martyrologies indicate the annual veneration of St. Quintianus, with no place added: Memorial of St. Quintianus the Priest whence it afterward came about that he was not sufficiently distinguished from others of this name. The better autographs and apographs of Usuard—both those preserved at Paris in the monastery of St. Germain, and those we ourselves possess—say only this: On the same day, of St. Quintianus, Priest and Confessor. The same is found in the Mss. of the Church and diocese of Tournai, the Roman one of the Vallicellian Church, the Trier one of St. Martin, and in the Ms. Florarium of the Saints; likewise in Bellinus in the Martyrology, according to the custom of the Roman Curia, printed at Venice in the year 1498 and often afterward, and in the Martyrology published at Paris in 1536, as also in Grevenus or the Cologne Carthusians in the Auctarium of Usuard printed about the year 1515 and 1521. Finally Molanus likewise has the same in his edition of Usuard, and of Sicius or Litus: and Canisius in the German Martyrology. A companion is joined to him in the Martyrology printed at Cologne and Lübeck, in these words: On the same day, of Saints Quintianus the Priest and Sicius the Confessor. But Maurolycus presents them thus: On the same day, of Quintianus the Priest and Titus the Confessor. In the Cologne Ms., kept among the Carmelite Fathers, it is written "Stici" the Confessor. The first to think otherwise concerning St. Quintianus was Galesinius, when he wrote thus: Among the Ruthenians, of St. Quintianus, Bishop and Confessor; and in his Notes he cites in the first place Usuard; but this latter, with the place omitted, is established to have called him a Priest. He adds to Usuard some Manuscript of his own: but we have often said this is not of good faith, and therefore we have wished it to be brought forth itself. He adds also Sigebert in his Chronicle: but he treats of another Quintianus, nor does he assign the day destined for the veneration of this one.
[2] from whom another St. Quintianus, Bishop Meanwhile Baronius, following Galesinius—divining or hallucinating—inscribed in the Roman Martyrology a Saint with this title prefixed, in these words: Among the Ruthenians, of St. Quintianus the Bishop. There was a St. Quintianus, Bishop of Rodez, but driven into exile by the Goths, he was made Bishop of the Arverni (Clermont), and there died, and was buried in the church of St. Stephen, and as such was inscribed in the same Roman Martyrology on the 13th of November: whom if we wish to believe to be the one here omitted by Usuard and named here, recorded on the 13th of November he ought now to be placed among those passed over and rejected to other days. But we are unwilling to believe that Usuard erred so far as to call a Priest one whom he should have named a Bishop. Wherefore, with the other Martyrologies, we here retain St. Quintianus the Priest and Sicius or Titus the Confessors, but leave the Bishop to the month of November.