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Quentin (Latin: Quintinus; died c. 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint.




Hagiography






= Martyrdom

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The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen who was martyred in Gaul. He is said to have been the son of a man named Zeno, who had senatorial rank. Filled with apostolic zeal, Quentin traveled to Gaul as a missionary with Lucian, who was later martyred at Beauvais, and others (the martyrs Victoricus and Fuscian are said to have been Quentin's followers). Quentin settled at Amiens and performed many miracles there.
Because of his preaching, he was imprisoned by the prefect Rictiovarus, who had traveled to Amiens from Trier. Quentin was manacled, tortured repeatedly, but refused to abjure his faith. The prefect left Amiens to go to Reims, the capital of Gallia Belgica, where he wanted Quentin judged. But, on the way, in a town named Augusta Veromanduorum (now Saint-Quentin, Aisne), Rictiovarus decided to interrupt his journey and pass sentence: Quentin was tortured again, then beheaded and thrown by the soldiers into the marshes around the Somme.




= First inventio

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Five years later, a blind woman named Eusebia, born of a senatorial family, came from Rome (following a divine order) and miraculously discovered the body, and a certain blind woman recovered her sight by the sacred relics. A small chapel was built nearby.




= Second inventio

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The life of bishop Eligius (mainly written in the seventh century), says that the exact place of the tomb was forgotten and that in 641, the bishop, after several days of searching miraculously found it. When the relics were discovered, together with the great nails with which the body had been pierced, Eligius distributed these nails, the teeth, and hair in other places, and enclosed the rest of the sacred treasure in a rich shrine of his own work, which he placed behind the high altar.
Eligius distributed the nails with which Quentin's body had been pierced, as well as some of his teeth and hair. As he was a skillful goldsmith, he placed the relics in a shrine he had fashioned himself. He also rebuilt the church (now Basilica of Saint-Quentin).




Devotion


The devotion of Saint Quentin was important during the Middle Ages, especially in Northern France—as evidenced by the considerable number of place names derived from the saint's (see Saint-Quentin).




References






External links



Saint Quentin, saints.SQPN.com
Catholic Online: Saint Quentin
Saint of the Day, October 31: Quentin of Amiens, SaintPatrickDC.org
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Saint-Quentin may refer to:




Places






= Canada

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Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick
Saint-Quentin Parish, New Brunswick
Saint-Quentin Island, in Trois-Rivières, in Québec




= France

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Saint-Quentin, Aisne, in the Aisne department
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a new town in the Yvelines department
Saint-Quentin-au-Bosc, in the Seine-Maritime department
Saint-Quentin-de-Baron, in the Gironde department
Saint-Quentin-de-Blavou, in the Orne department
Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong, in the Gironde department
Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais, in the Charente department
Saint-Quentin-des-Isles, in the Eure department
Saint-Quentin-des-Prés, in the Oise department
Saint-Quentin-du-Dropt, in the Lot-et-Garonne department
Saint-Quentin-en-Mauges, in the Maine-et-Loire department
Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont, in the Somme department
Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, in the Isère department
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne, in the Creuse department
Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly, in the Somme department
Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, in the Gard department
Saint-Quentin-la-Tour, in the Ariège department
Saint-Quentin-le-Petit, in the Ardennes department
Saint-Quentin-les-Anges, in the Mayenne department
Saint-Quentin-lès-Beaurepaire, in the Maine-et-Loire department
Saint-Quentin-les-Chardonnets, in the Orne department
Saint-Quentin-les-Marais, in the Marne department
Saint-Quentin-le-Verger, in the Marne department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Charente, in the Charente department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Coole, in the Marne department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois, in the Indre-et-Loire department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Isère, in the Isère department
Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme, in the Manche department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Nohain, in the Nièvre department
Saint-Quentin-sur-Sauxillanges, in the Puy-de-Dôme department




Other


Basilica of Saint-Quentin, formerly the Collegiate Church of Saint-Quentin, a Catholic church in the town of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France




See also


Saint Quentin (died 287), early Christian saint
Battle of St. Quentin (disambiguation)
San Quintin (disambiguation)
San Quentin (disambiguation)
Sant Quintí de Mediona, a place in Spain

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