De sancto Quintino
The Martyrdom of Saint Quintinus
Saint Quintinus endures severe torture and execution for his faith in Christ.
Quintinus, a man of noble birth and a Roman citizen, came to the city of Amiens and performed many miracles. He was captured by the city's prefect on the orders of Maximian, beaten until he collapsed, and thrown into prison, but an angel set him free, and he went into the heart of the city to preach to the people. He was captured again and stretched on the rack until his veins burst. He was also beaten severely with raw nerves and endured boiling oil, pitch, and fat. When he mocked the governor, the enraged man threw lime, vinegar, and mustard into his mouth. But since he remained unmoved and had been brought to Vermand, the governor drove two nails from his head down to his legs and ten between his fingernails and flesh, and finally had him beheaded.
The Discovery of the Relics
A noble matron is guided by an angel to recover the incorrupt body of the saint, receiving a miracle of sight in return.
His body had been thrown into the river and lay hidden for fifty-five years, until it was found in this way by a noble Roman matron: while she was diligently devoted to prayer, she was warned by an angel in the night and told to hurry to the fortress of Vermand to search for the body of Saint Quintinus in a certain place and bury it with honor; so when she arrived at the place with a large company and was praying there, the incorrupt and sweet-smelling body of Saint Quintinus immediately floated up to the surface of the river. As she buried him, she received the gift of sight in return for her service of burial, and after a church was built there, she returned home.
Read the original Latin
Quintinus genere nobilis et civis Romanus ad urbem Ambianum veniens et multa miracula faciens jussu Maximiani a praefecto urbis capitur et usque ad defectum cacdentium verberatus carceri mancipatur, sed solvente eum angelo in mediam urbem ivit et ibi populo praedicavit. Unde iterum captus et in equuleo usque ad ruptionem venarum distentus, nervis quoque crudis durissime caesus oleum, picem et adipem ferventissimum toleravit, et cum praesidem derideret, iratus calcem, acetum et sinapium in os ejus projecit. Sed cum adhuc immobilis permaneret et apud Veromandum adductus fuisset, duos clavos a capite usque ad crura et decem inter ungulas et carnem praeses infigens tandem eum decollari fecit. Cujus corpus in flumen projectum, cum per annos LV latuisset, a quadam matrona nobili Romana taliter repertum est, Nam dum assidue orationi vacaret, nocte ab angelo monita ad castrum Veromandum properare jubetur, ut in tali loco corpus sancti Quintini requireret et honorifice sepeliret, Cum igitur ad praedictum locum cum multo comitatu venisset et orationem ibidem funderet, corpus sancti Quintini incorruptum et redolens super fluvium protinus enatavit. Quod sepeliens pro sepulturae beneficio jumen oculorum recepit et ibidem aedificata ecelesia ad propria remeavit.
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