Quirinus of Sescia

Quirinus of Siscia († June 4 308 or 309 in Sabaria - today: Szombathely, Hungary) is a saint of the Catholic Church. Quirinus ( kroat. Sveti Kvirin Sisački ) was an early Christian Bishop of Siscia in Pannonia (today Sisak, Croatia) according to the records of Eusebius of Caesarea

Name

There are several saints with the same name. In particular the cult of Quirinus of Neuss has clear parallels. He is as well Quirinus of Tegernsee, the son of the Roman Emperor Philip the Arab ( 204-249 ).

Legend

According to a Martyriumsbericht ( Passio ) Quirinus was arrested in the late period of Diocletian's persecution of Christians under Galerius in 309. After a successful escape attempt, he was thrown into prison, where he succeeded in converting the jailer Marcellus to Christianity. After three days he was transferred to command of the Amantius governor of the province Pannonia Prima, after Sabaria. (: Gyöngyös or its tributary Perint today ) drowned because he did not renounce his faith and the imperial cult refused, he was probably tortured and finally with a millstone around the neck in the river Sibaris. Christians from Sabaria hid his body and buried him outside the city walls near the gate after Ödenburg ( Porta Scarabantea ) Later salvaged corpse in the Basilica of Sabaria was buried.

According to another legend, he was drowned almost only because he managed to free himself from the burden. He managed to escape and then worked on as a preacher and missionary. The Holy Florian, another saint of Pannonia is said to have suffered in a similar way to his martyrdom.

In the time of the great migrations in the 5th or 6th century Quirin's remains were brought to Rome. They are still kept on the Via Appia Antica in San Sebastiano in the mausoleum Platonia.

The Acts of the Martyrs of the Holy exist yet ( Thierry Ruinart, "Acta martyrum ", Regensburg, 522), as well as a hymn of Prudentius (ibid., 524 ).

Worship

Quirin is represented in bishop's robes with umgebundenem millstone. His feast day is June 4.

After the invasion of the Huns in Pannonia around the year 400 his remains arrived in Rome and were in a mausoleum or a burial chamber called Platonia. Behind the apse of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori le mura on the Via Appia Antica The Platonia, an extension to the back of the basilica, which was held for the tomb of Saints Peter and Paul long, was actually probably the Tumbe of St. Quirinus. His worship began, according to the itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs in the 7th century.

Some sources claim that his remains were transferred several times, so to Milan, Aquileia and in the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome. His bones might have been spent after Tivoli, which would explain the cult of the saints Quirinus of Tivoli, which is optionally identical to the saints.

Patrocinium

Besides a number of Quirinus church is a church dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Siscia in Istrian Jesenovik (Croatia). The Diocese of Sisak (built in 2009) and the cities of Sisak and Krk venerate the saint as their patron.

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