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St. Quartus

St. Quartus

Traditional feast

November 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

November 10 (also listed: January 4)
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on November 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, Notker, &c. Greek Mensea and Menologies, that of Basil on Nov. 10, along with Olympias, Herodius, Sosipater, Erastus, and Tertius. So also the Glagolithic Kalendar and the Russian. But the Greek Menaea, published at Venice in 1585, also on Sept. 3. Authority -Rom. xvi. 23.] UARTUS, a Christian of Corinth, “ a brother, is said to have been one of the Seventy disciples; and there is a tradition that he also became eventually, bishop of Berytus, but this rests on the uncertain testimony of the pseudo-Hippolytus. Not. jO S. Papulus.

Feast days

Feast: November 10
Traditional: November 9

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St. Theodotus of Laodicea

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Erastus, Olympus, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius (Menologion of Basil II).jpg · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.