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ST QUADRATUS, BISHOP OF ATHENS, CONFESSOR - 26 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 26th of May WELCOME! SAINT QUADRATUS, BISHOP OF ATHENS, CONFESSOR   Saint Quadratus was a disciple of the apostles, inherited their spirit and gifts, and by his miracles and labours exceedingly propagated the faith, as Eusebius testified; who calls him a divine man, and assures us that he was endued with an eminent gift of prophecy, and was one of those by whom the Holy Ghost continued to work the same miracles as by the apostles.  A GREAT ORNAMENT OF ATHENS St Publius, the immediate successor of St Dionysius the Areopagite, being crowned with martyrdom under Adrian in the year 125, St Quadratus was placed in that episcopal chair. By his qualifications in polite literature, he was esteemed by the heathens as a great ornament to their city, then the seat of the muses; and by his zeal and piety he assembled the faithful together, whom the terrors of the persecution had scattered, and rekindled the fire of their faith, which h...