Quirinus of Rome

Quirinus of Tegernsee, and Quirinus of Rome (* 3rd century; † 269 in Rome) is a martyr and saint of the 3rd century.

Legend

Quirinus fled as a seven year old boy with his mother Severa before the onset of pursuit, was later arrested and beheaded in the year 269 in Rome under Claudius Gothicus ( 268-270 ). His body was thrown into the Tiber and later found on the Tiber Island. According to another legend, Quirinus was the son of Philip the Arab. The Acts of the Martyrs report a Roman martyrs named Quirinus ( Cyrinus ), who was buried in the Pontianuskatakombe. The itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs not bear his name.

The legend was later transferred to the Bavarian Tegernsee monastery connected wherever two Bavarian Count ' convicted in the Salvator Church founded by them in the year 746 during the reign of Pepin his relics as a gift of Pope Zacharias in Tegernsee. Also a translation under the pontificate of Paul I ( 757-767 ) has been considered to 761.

Worship

Through these relics and the miracles associated Tegernsee became an important place of pilgrimage. At the point where the car stopped with the relics, to have sprung from a source. The strong-smelling stone oil, which was discovered on the opposite shore of the lake, was worshiped under the name of Quirinus oil as a cure for fever and rash.

His feast day in March 25. Maybe alluded to this Quirinus with the phrase " Romae sancti Cyri " in the " Martyrology Hieronymianum ", which is called March 24.

The Quirinus worship flourished around its center at the Tegernsee, a larger stone church was built in 1450 for his relics.