September 21st

Saint Quadratus

Saint · Common of Holy Men and Women · Greece · d. c. 129

In Greece, the commemoration of Saint Quadratus, a disciple of the Apostles, who, as it is related, during the persecution of the Emperor Hadrian, gathered together by his faith and diligence the Church that had been scattered by terror, and presented to that same emperor a book worthy of apostolic teaching in defense of the Christian religion.

Latin Original

In Grécia, commemorátio sancti Quadráti, Apostolórum discípuli, qui, ut fertur, in persecutióne Hadriáni 1mperatóris, Ecclésiam terróre dispérsam fide et indüstria sua cóngregans, librum pro christiánze religiónis defensióne apostólica doctrina dignum eídem imperatóri porréxit.