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			Saint Quirinus of Tegernsee

	Death of Saint Quirin, painting by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1782

	Martyr
	Died	~270 AD
	Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
	Major shrine	Tegernsee, Bavaria
	Feast	March 25; June 16 (translation of relics)[1]
	Attributes	orb, sceptre[1]


Quirinus of Tegernsee, or Quirinus of Rome (not to be confused with Quirinus of Neuss, also sometimes called Quirinus of Rome), is venerated as a martyr and saint of the third century.

According to one tradition, he was beheaded during the reign of Claudius Gothicus (268-70).  His corpse was thrown into the Tiber and later found at Tiber Island.[1]

According to the legendary Acts of the martyrs Saint Maris and Saint Martha, a Roman martyr Quirinus (Cyrinus) was buried in the Catacomb of Pontian.  However, the Itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs do not mention him.[2]

His legend was later connected with Tegernsee Abbey in Bavaria, where his relics had been translated in the eighth century, during the reign of King Pippin and Pope Zacharias.[1]  However, Quirinus' relics may have been translated instead during the papacy of Pope Paul I (term 757-767), around 761.[1]


Veneration[edit]

  
Chapel of St Quirinus, Tegernsee



His feast is celebrated on March 25. Perhaps this Quirinus is meant by the expression "Romæ sancti Cyri" found in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" of March 24 (cf. "Acta SS.", III, March, 543 sqq.; Dufourcq "Les Gesta martyrum romains", I, 240).

Quirinus' cult flourished from its center at Tegernsee, and a larger stone church was built in 1450 to house his coffin.


References[edit]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sts. Quirinus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.



	^ a b c d e QUIRINUS vom Tegernsee

	^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sts. Quirinus





	"Den hellige Quirinus av Tegernsee (d. 269)". katolsk.no (in Norwegian). 21 February 2000. Retrieved 12 August 2019.



External links[edit]

	Catholic Encyclopedia
	Walter Troxler (1994). "Quirinus vom Tegernsee".  In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 7. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1132–1133. ISBN 3-88309-048-4.



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