ST QUINTIN, MARTYR - 31st OCTOBER
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1. St Quintin [d. A.D. 287] was a Roman, descended of a senatorian family, and is called by his historian the son of Zeno.
Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, St Quintin staid at Amiens, endeavouring by #StQuintin #Oct31
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1. St Quintin [d. A.D. 287] was a Roman, descended of a senatorian family, and is called by his historian the son of Zeno.
Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, St Quintin staid at Amiens, endeavouring by #StQuintin #Oct31
2. his prayers and labours to make that country a portion of our Lord’s inheritance.
God made him powerful in words and works, and his discourses were accompanied by great numbers of miracles, and illustrated and enforced by a most holy and mortified life.
In the year 286,
God made him powerful in words and works, and his discourses were accompanied by great numbers of miracles, and illustrated and enforced by a most holy and mortified life.
In the year 286,
3. Rictius Varus, prefect of the praetorium, heard of the great progress the Christian faith had made at Amiens, and ordered St Quintin to be seized, and assailed his constancy by subjecting him to tortures.
The holy martyr, strengthened by Him whose cause he defended,
#Jesus
The holy martyr, strengthened by Him whose cause he defended,
#Jesus
4. preserved a perfect tranquillity of mind in the midst of such torments as filled the spectators with horror.
Being ashamed to see himself vanquished by his courage and virtue, Rictius Varus caused his body to be pierced with two iron wires from the neck
#Christianity
Being ashamed to see himself vanquished by his courage and virtue, Rictius Varus caused his body to be pierced with two iron wires from the neck
#Christianity
5. and iron nails to be struck under his nails, and, lastly, his head to be cut off. This was executed on the 31st of October, in 287.
Martyrdom, when we are called to it, is an homage we owe to God, and a debt due to faith and religion.
#Christians #JesusChrist
#EarlyChurch
Martyrdom, when we are called to it, is an homage we owe to God, and a debt due to faith and religion.
#Christians #JesusChrist
#EarlyChurch
6. Happy are they whom God, by a special grace, allows to seal their fidelity to him by their blood!
No testimony can be more authentic, more glorious to God, more edifying, more convincing. God chose it for one of the sublime means to accomplish His work. #ThyKingdomCome
No testimony can be more authentic, more glorious to God, more edifying, more convincing. God chose it for one of the sublime means to accomplish His work. #ThyKingdomCome
7. Are we witnesses to God and his holy religion, at least by lives of self-denial, meekness, and sanctity?
Or do we by a contrary deportment disgrace his holy church, of which we have the honour to be members, and expose his adorable name to the blasphemies of infidels?
Or do we by a contrary deportment disgrace his holy church, of which we have the honour to be members, and expose his adorable name to the blasphemies of infidels?
8. (Excerpts from Fr Butler's "Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints")
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