Dear learned ones, St. Quirinus, was bishop in Siscia, today Sisak in
Croatia, on the confluence of rivers Sava (Savus fl.) with Kupa (Calapis
fl.), mentioned for the year 308. Matej
Bill East wrote:
> Interim Saints - June 3rd and 4th
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> ....
> June 4th
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> QUIRINUS, bishop and martyr (A.D. 304)
> Quirinus, of Blessed Memory, was Bishop of Sissek, now a small town, on
> the Save in Croatia.
>
> METROPHANES, bishop (A.D. 325)
>
> Metrophanes, bishop of Byzantium, lived to see strange changes. The
> quiet little town which he ruled was being transformed into the capital
> of the East, and became the residence of the emperor.
>
> OPTATUS, bishop and confessor (about A.D. 380)
>
> S. Optatus was an African, and was educated as an idolator, but was
> converted to Christianity, and became bishop of Milevis in Numidia. He
> is chiefly known by his books against the Donatists, which is a
> principal source of information concerning these schismatics in the
> early portion of their history.
>
> PETROCK, abbot (6th cent.)
>
> S. Petrock is said to have been of royal blood, and born in South
> Wales, but on the death of his father the king, despising worldly pomp,
> he went into Ireland, where he spent twenty years, studying.
>
> BREACHA, virgin (5th or 6th cent.)
>
> This saint is said, but it is more than questionable, to have been a
> disciple of S. Patrick. She came to Cornwall from Ireland, and lived a
> solitary life on the east bank of the river Hayle.
>
> NENNOCHA, virgin (8th cent.)
>
> The legend of S. Nennocha is pure fable, through which one can scarce
> discern the outlines of history.
>
> FRANCIS CARACCIOLO, priest and confessor (A.D. 1608)
>
> Ascanio Caracciolo was born in 1563, at Villa Santa-Maria, in the
> kingdom of Naples. At the age of twenty-two he fell ill with a
> loathesome malady which was believed to be leprosy, and then feeling
> the worthlessness of the world's pleasure, he resolved to devote
> himself wholly to God. No sooner had he made this vow, than his health
> improved, and the disorder left him.
>
> Oriens.
>
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Matej Zupancic
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