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Doctissimi,
John Dillon wrote 5. 6. on St. Quirinus of Siscia and his cult in Italia. We
must add, beside the St. Quirino church in Ponte San Quirini on river
Natissone, the silver reliquiarium of of the 5.th cent., with figures of
Christ, Petrus and Paulus, and Quirinus, Latinus, Cantius, Cantianus and
Cantianilla, the last five with inscriptions. Patriarch Paulinus moved in
568 the reliquiarium from Aquileia to the new see on the island of Gradus,
today / Grado.
(S. Tavano, Grado paleocristiana1980)
Matej
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On Friday, June 3, 2005, at 7:24 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (4. June) is the feast day of:
>
> Quirinus (d. 308) Bishop Quirinus of Siscia (somewhere around
> Croatia) fled to escape the Great Persecution, but was captured and
> refused to perform a sacrifice to the state gods on demand. So he
> was drowned in the Raab River.
Jerome, drawing on Q.'s legendary Acta, says this in his continuation of
Eusebius' _Chronicon_:
"Quirinus, Episcopus Siscianus, pro Christo gloriose interficitur: nam
manuali mola ad collum ligata, e ponte praecipitatus in fluvium
diutissime supernatavit; et cum spectantibus collocutus, ne suo
terrerentur exemplo; vix, orans ut mergeretur, obtinuit."
A well known poetic version of the same is Prudentius, _Peristephanon_
7, where, however, Q.'s weight is no longer a hand mill (_manualis mola_)
but instead a huge millstone (_suspensum laqueo gerens / ingentis lapidem
molae_; vv. 25-26).
About the same time that Prudentius quit public life in order to devote
himself full-time to Christian poetry remains of Q. were installed in
the martyrs' mausoleum (the so-called Platonia) adjacent to the
fourth-century catacomb church later dedicated to St. Sebastian (San
Sebastiano fuori le Mura; San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas). That church
has been rebuilt several times; its present facade, dating from the
eighteenth century, includes an arcade carried on paired columns said to
have come from the old basilica (also known, because Peter and Paul were
said to have been laid to rest here, as the Basilica Apostolorum):
http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi59af.jpg
and top left here:
http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi59ai.jpg
Late nineteenth-century archeological investigation underneath this church
failed to discover resting places for either Peter or Paul but it did
reveal, in 1892, Q.'s resting place, complete with a partly preserved
painted verse inscription that one may read in editions of Damasus'
_Carmina_. In Ihm's ed. it's no. 76a in the pseudo-Damasiana; in the
ed. of unknown origin reproduced here it's no. 85:
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/damasus.html
Instructions for gaining access to the ancient portions of San
Sebastiano f.l.M. are given here:
http://roma.katolsk.no/sebastianofuori.htm
Siscia can be located more precisely: it's Sisak in Croatia (in
Hungarian, Sziszek). A noteworthy medieval dedication to Q. in Croatia
is his twelfth-century church in Krk. This is the upper church in a
bipartite building whose lower portion is an earlier church dedicated to
Margaret of Antioch.
Exterior views:
http://ineco.posluh.hr/pgz/krk/kvirinv1.jpg
http://www.csatolna.hu/hu/erdekes/Elbi/horvat/krk3.jpg
http://ineco.posluh.hr/pgz/krk/k_krkv.jpg
http://ineco.posluh.hr/pgz/krk/k_krk1v.jpg
Interior view:
http://www.csatolna.hu/hu/erdekes/Elbi/horvat/krk2.jpg
An interior view of the lower church is here:
http://www.kroatische.de/region/kvarner/Document/img/hr460.jpg
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/7qye8
Because Q. was a martyr of the ancient diocese of Pannonia, a forerunner
of the medieval and early modern kingdom of Hungary, he is venerated
elsewhere in this general region, especially in areas now or formerly of
Slavic settlement, including the Italian portion of the Julian Alps
(Venezia Giulia). A medieval dedication to Q. from today's Italy is his
church at San Pietro al Natisone (UD), rebuilt in the early sixteenth
century:
http://www.vallidelnatisone.it/files/album/chiesa.htm
Another, now a ruin but locally famous as the site of a
thirteenth-century accord between the patriarchate of Aquileia and the
county of Gorizia (the Peace of St. Quirinus; 1202), is his former
church at Cormons (GO):
http://www.copris.it/cormons/cor_quirino.jpg
Yet another dedication to Q. on the Italian peninsula, but not in
today's Italy, is this sixteenth-century church in the Republic of San
Marino, built on the site of an older chapel to Q. in honor of San
Marino's foiling of an occupation attempt on 4. June 1543:
http://www.sanmarinosite.com/monumenti/capp.html
Best,
John Dillon
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