Quintian, Lucius and Julian explained

Saints Quintian, Lucius and Julian
Death Date:430 AD
Feast Day:May 23
Venerated In:Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church[1]
Death Place:Africa
Titles:Martyrs

Quintian (Quinctianus), Lucius and Julian (Julianus) are venerated as saints and martyrs by the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Roman Martyrology, they were inhabitants of North Africa who were killed during the persecutions of the Vandal king Huneric (476–484 AD), who was an Arian.[2] However, the date of their martyrdom may be conjectural.[2] They are the only ones named in a group of sixteen martyrs, which included several women.[2]

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Quinctianus was a bishop and was probably the same person as a bishop named Urcitanus.[3]

The Martyrologium Hieronymianum mentions other African martyrs of this same name on other feast days; however, no other information is included for the martyrs placed under the different feast days.[3]

The Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church mentions that saints Quintianus, Lucius and Julianus were martyred together with nineteen other Christians.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κουϊντιανὸς, Λούκιος καὶ Ἰουλιανὸς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτοῖς δέκα ἐννέα Μάρτυρες. 23 Μαΐου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. Benedictine Monks, Book of the Saints (Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2003), 227.
  3. Web site: Quinctianus. 1911. J.P. Kirsch. Catholic Encyclopedia. May 19, 2009.